You know when come across a tree there are two things you can do with it :
You fruit the tree, then you ask for its branched, and then for its wood after which you move on to another tree .
Secondly you can reap the fruit, nurture it and take a few branches , you want and nurture it more and get a bit of wood nurture it further so it grows , fruits, blooms and is fit to give you more of it all.
but the last one takes patience, compassion and humanity, which is lost.
No wonder these days, the fruit is scarce and the shadows are rare.
The tree has now reduced to a stump, a few nascent branches, too shy to shine in the summer sun are springing out in weird directions. The fear the sound of the axe, a tool essential to prune a tree to grow strong and graceful, because the very tool has always been used to chip this one little tree to a stump so many times that the tree knows the tool would only bring destruction to it and nothing more.
The Voice Of An Art Freak. 