
The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.
African Proverb
MEANING OF THIS QUOTE
As an instrument, the axe is designed to do damage. It can chop down hundreds, if not thousands of trees, during its life. It isn't, therefore, possible for the axe to remember each and every tree it hacked off. On the other hand, the trees that actually were on the receiving end of the axe's wrath do remember the one axe that inflicted that hurt on them. The axe forgets the pain it caused, but the tree doesn't.
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