The logger came into the forest and begged the tree to give him a handle for an axe, and the tree immediately agreed to this reasonable request, and without hesitation gave him a sapling of a ash tree, which the logger used to make an axe handle he wanted. As soon as he had the new axe handle, he began to work, cutting down the precious trees in the forest.
When the trees saw what the loggers were doing with their gifts, they cried, "Oh! ah! We're almost done, but we have to blame ourselves. We gave him that little sapling, and we had to pay for it. If we hadn't sacrificed that ash tree, we could have stood here for a long time.
What is the moral of this parable? I believe that you must have different insights, welcome to share and discuss.
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