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.