To what should we liken the Kingdom of Heaven?
What comparison can be made? (NEV)
It is like the seed of a Dawn Redwood
So naked and small, it is
Almost impossible to find in the duff,
One of a hundred in a cone;
But when from the limb by wind thrown,
Onto broken ground fallen,
Into upturned earth sown,
It grows up a wide rooted towering mantle
(Home to creature and kindred varied and many)
From which drops with the rain of centuries
(Each after its kind)
Seed sowing the earth
To which we should liken the Kingdom of Heaven.
This One & This One 