The Boy and the Trees

Once there was a little boy and his father who loved to go on walks. One day they were walking through the forest and the little boy saw some men cutting down trees. In the forest there were lots of different types of trees, and the ones the men were cutting down were large, green trees. The boy asked his dad why they were cutting down the trees and his father told him that they were using the trees to make paper and pencils. The boy and his father continued to stroll and eventually came upon more men cutting trees. However these men were cutting down much smaller, newer ones that the boy had seen them cut before. When he asked his father his father only replied, "They are cutting down the little trees so that the larger ones have more space to grow". Now the little boy was confused because if you are a big tree the men would cut you down, and if you were a little tree the men would still cut you down so you were not safe anyhow. When the boy told his dad about this, his dad said, "You are right, son. If you are in a forest one way or another you will get cut down. The only way is to stay as far from danger as you can. in other words, if you were a tree, try to grow somewhere more public, like a park, and there is less chance you will get cut down." The End