6442 - The questions and the trees

N. Lygeros
Translation: Paola Vagioni

– If I was a tree what tree would I be?
– An olive tree?
– An olive tree to bear crops.
– And if I was a flower?
– It does not matter.
– And you what tree would you be?
– The one that protects the others.
– And if you were a flower?
– None.
– But why?
– No flower can protect the others.
– Who said so?
– The little prince.
– But I haven’t seen it anywhere.
– He did not write it. He dared not.
– And about the trees?
– Nobody wrote about their mythology.
– But you can?
– Correct!
– I am glad.
– Fine.