I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be

Wide will wear, but Narrow will tear.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Sauve qui peut. To survive
we’d all turn thief

and rascal, or so says the fox,
with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,
her white knife of a smile,
who knows just where she’s going:

to steal something
that doesn’t belong to her -
some chicken, or one more chance,
or other life.

The proper planting of a tree is essential to ensure survival.

27. Trees
I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree.