A Crab, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground. A Fox came across him, and being very hungry ate him up. Just as he was on the point of being eaten, the Crab said, “I well deserve my fate, for what business had I on the land, when by my nature and habits I am only adapted for the sea?”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–560 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across the world for centuries. "The Crab and the Fox" is one of his shorter moral tales, notable for placing the moral lesson in the mouth of the doomed character itself rather than as a closing maxim.
