No one knows the risks we face, whether we’ll succeed or come a cropper, but no one gets to even the first base if he regards himself as a grasshopper.

Though one day locusts may destroy what we’ve prepared, by imitating ants, we surely never will enjoy a future if we never take a chance.

Whereas all grasshoppers can jump, the spies sent to explore the Holy Land refused, and chose instead to grump, disaffection making them demand

avoidance of all risks that must be taken, such as jumping to conclusions, as optimists do when they trust what very sadly often are delusions.

Num. 13:33 explains why the response of ten of the Israelite scouts doomed their expedition to the land of Israel:

לג  וְשָׁם רָאִינוּ, אֶת-הַנְּפִילִים בְּנֵי עֲנָק–מִן-הַנְּפִלִים; וַנְּהִי בְעֵינֵינוּ כַּחֲגָבִים, וְכֵן........

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