I always hated this book, The Giving Tree. Look at the cover picture. Is that a young Tony Hayward catching the apple? Is it you? Is it me? We are encouraged to take and take from our loving mother nature. And what's to stop us? The tree will truly keep giving and giving until we kill it. And then we will sit on it's corpse and wonder what went wrong.
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Taking Boy
I always hated this book, The Giving Tree. Look at the cover picture. Is that a young Tony Hayward catching the apple? Is it you? Is it me? We are encouraged to take and take from our loving mother nature. And what's to stop us? The tree will truly keep giving and giving until we kill it. And then we will sit on it's corpse and wonder what went wrong.
I had the same reaction to this book and I was sad about it but now at least I am in good company. Sad company.
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