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the: story of the oak trff 
You don’t make any friends by 
being worshiped. No, I don’t 
want to be worshiped, I want to 
be understood. I want you 
humans to be real friends with 
me, and that means you will 
have to study me a little, in 
order to get acquainted. Study 
my roots and trunk and leaves; 
find out how I live and eat; whether I ever go to sleep; 
how I keep warm and how I feed my children, the 
acorns. 
Acorns from Scarlet Oak 
Do you know why I 
haven’t legs to run 
around in search of 
food the way animals 
do ? Because I don’t 
need to! I can dig my 
roots into the moist soil 
and stay comfortably 
just where I am, be¬ 
cause I eat water and 
sunlight. Yes, I do! 
Water from the soil 
and sunlight from above 
Reaves of White Oak 
