No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.
“No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.”
A teaching against infighting: like the branches of one tree, people who belong together should not turn on each other.
— Traditional Canada Wisdom, Canada
Source: Commonly attributed to Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) oral tradition; exact origin and first speaker are undocumented, as is typical of orally transmitted teachings.
More Proverbs from Canada
Keep your stick on the ice.
Stay alert, stay ready, and keep doing the right thing even when nothing is happening.
Tie up your toque!
Brace yourself — things are about to get intense or exciting.
To speak through one's hat.
To talk about something you know nothing about, or to speak nonsense.
To have a fir tree slipped to you.
To be cheated or swindled in a deal.
Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last river poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.
Material wealth is worthless if we destroy the natural world that sustains us.
It's cold out.
An emphatic Québécois way of saying it is bitterly, painfully cold.