and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living. —Rabindranath Tagore
with the synopsis provided, I do have an opinion. In view of the era of the writing, I believe the author intended to teach an environmental lesson in the preservation and protection of the environment, in particular, trees. By giving the tree a personality, he/she aroused the mind of a...