The Plane Tree
Author: Aesop Walking in the midday sun, two travelers looked for a place to rest in the shade of a spreading tree. They noticed it was a plane tree as they lay there looking up among the pleasant leaves. One of them exclaimed, "How useless is the Plane!" It produces absolutely no fruit and merely leaves a trail of leaf litter on the ground. ". From the Plane Tree, a voice cried out, "Ungrateful creatures!" Men take their benefits ungratefully! You are lying in my cooling shade and you claim that I am of no use. Moral Most of the time, our greatest blessings go unnoticed.