Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Borland contrasts human intellectual striving with the quiet, irreducible mystery of origins. However much people accumulate knowledge, the “ultimate wisdom” about beginnings—how life starts, renews, and organizes itself—seems embodied in something as small as a seed. The seed becomes a symbol of nature’s generative power: commonplace and observable, yet not fully explainable in a way that satisfies the longing for first causes. By saying it “calls forth faith rather than reason,” the quote suggests that some truths are approached through trust, wonder, and humility rather than through analysis alone. It is a meditation on limits: reason can describe processes, but awe remains at the threshold of creation.