Talk's Cheap Let's watch a movie about a farmer and a tree. It's a silent movie. In early spring, the farmer drives into his yard with a small tree in the back of his truck. He takes it out and plants it in a field close to his house. And then we don't see the farmer for a long time.
Weeds grow around the little tree, and in a couple of months, they're as tall as the tree.
So are the vines growing around the base, choking the tree roots. This is followed by a very dry summer. By the arrival of early fall, the tree hasn't grown at all and is almost completely dried out, with only a spark of life left in it. Finally, we see the farmer again, standing by the tree and talking with another man. The next day, the farmer pulls the tree out of the ground and throws it on a pile of brush to be burned.