African Proverbs on Nature (39 Proverbs)
- When one tries to shake a big tree, he ends up shaking himself.
(African Proverb)
- When there is a big tree, small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
(African Proverb)
- When the shadow of a tree is bent, straighten the tree, not the shadow.
(African Proverb)
- There are no short cuts to the top of a palm tree.
(African Proverb)
- The roughness of a cotton tree is not known until you get close to it.
(African Proverb)
- The predator lands on an unknown tree.
(African Proverb)
- The one who went to the in-laws got trapped in a thorn tree.
(African Proverb)
- The mouse says: I dig a hole without a hoe; the snake says: climb a tree without arms.
(African Proverb)
- The fruits of a tree on the roadside are never eaten ripe.
(African Proverb)
- He who isn't around is never beaten by the falling tree.
(African Proverb)
- If you want to lean on a tree, first make sure it can hold you.
(African Proverb)
- He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
(African Proverb)
- If you don't eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree.
(African Proverb)
- During a storm you seek shelter under a tree and not the clouds.
(African Proverb)
- If you debark a tree don't expect it to live again; you can only plant another of its kind.
(African Proverb)
- Being in the forest and failing to see trees is a curse.
(African Proverb)
- If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.
(African Proverb)
- A wind can move the branches of trees but it will never move the head of a man.
(African Proverb)
- If a tree is cursed even its shade is unclean.
(African Proverb)
- A strong tree shall always grow from the roots and not the seeds.
(African Proverb)
- If a bird does not recognise a tree, it will not rest on it.
(African Proverb)
- A small shrub may grow into a tree.
(African Proverb)
- He who tries to shake a tree stump shakes only himself.
(African Proverb)
- A small axe is not sufficient to cut down a large tree.
(African Proverb)
- The axe forgets; the tree remembers.
(African Proverb)
- A river doesn't flow through the forest without felling the trees.
(African Proverb)
- Only when a tree has grown can you tie your cow to it.
(African Proverb)
- A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.
(African Proverb)
- On the day a monkey dies, all the trees are slippery.
(African Proverb)
- A lizard without one leg cannot move up a tree.
(African Proverb)
- No matter how tall a tree might grow it will always shed its leaves on the ground.
(African Proverb)
- A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
(African Proverb)
- Monkeys don't advise there young ones to be careful on trees they just remind them of the distance to the ground.
(African Proverb)
- It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.
(African Proverb)
- It's better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.
(African Proverb)
- If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if you vision is for a decade plant trees, and if your vision is for a lifetime plant people.
(African Proverb)
- If you want to sit under a shade in your old age plant a tree now.
(African Proverb)
- When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you.
(African Proverb)
- The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.
(African Proverb)
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