SPIRITS OF GIVING/SELFISHNESS
A young oak tree was growing tall and strong. It rejoiced when it bore its first crop of acorns. Then, one day, it heard a nearby bramble talking . . . “These forest trees are our greatest enemies,” it said. “Look at all the space they occupy. Look at the amount of nourishment they take from the earth!” Some moss, growing at the foot of a parent-oak, said to the bramble, “Oh, but see what beautiful shade they give! How cool and pleasant it is here, and how glad the poor animals are to lie down in the heat of the day and find shelter from the glowing sun! And see how the birds build their nests in the branches!” The selfish bush replied, “All I know is they absorb a lot of nourishment and they spread themselves out as if the world belonged to them. Cut them down, I say, and let us brambles take over.” “But you are forgetting…
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