The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!

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

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

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.