The Woodcutter cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk. The Oak said with a sigh, “I do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges made from my own branches.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–560 BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two thousand years. "The Oak and the Woodcutters" is one of his shortest yet most pointed moral tales, distilling a complex human experience — the pain of inner betrayal — into a single image of a tree undone by its own branches.
