Believe It Or Not, A Well Known Aesop’s Fable Resembles The Fight For Life Of Trees During The Drought Times!
The title might seem a little bit fussy, but it reflects a true statement made by a member of a team of scientists studying the reasons why some trees are drought-resistant, while others perish regardless the expectations for their resistance to the lack of water in their surrounding environment.
The point to focus here is not about the veracity, or credibility of the scientific assertion mentioned above, which is quite deep and interesting.
It is rather about the way the scientist matches a Nature’s behavior of members of the vegetation realm with the moral extracted from the human behavior, as applied in the story of “The Tortoise and the Hare”, found among the fables attributed to Aesop.
This becomes more interesting when we notice that the wisdom extracted from the Aesop’s fables can be and, in fact, are applicable also to the behavior of other living forms different than the human and animal realms!
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