A man came into a forest and asked the trees to provide him a handle for his axe. The trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash tree.
As soon as he fitted a new handle to his axe from the tree, the man began to use the axe to quickly fell the noblest giants of the forest.
An old oak nearby lamented to a neighbouring cedar, "The first generous step has spelt doom for us. If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might have retained our privileges and continue standing for ages."
(Aesop's Fables)
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
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