What does the following Japanese proverb mean : Even a dead tree brings prosperity to the mountain?

Answer 1

Something that seems worthless can be a gift.

Answer 2

everything and everyone has their means of usefulness even when they are dead and gone or things that you might think is useless, someone else will need it. What the proverb literally means is during the last cycle of that tree, other trees and the mountain itself will be abundant with the goodness from that tree and animals and birds etc will make it their home or food from it. What one regards as rubbish is another man treasure.

Answer 3

the mountain could be seen as the big picture. Having the dead tree on the side adds to the picturesque mountain.

A beautiful woman with a hair out of place is still a beautiful woman.

Answer 4

It is said in many religions and cultures, that something has to die to be productive. If we take the fruit from a tree and realize how many pieces of fruit, apples, oranges, etc, there are on the tree and realize how many pits and seeds are within that fruit, we realize how many other fruit trees can be produced in the aftermath of that tree dropping its fruit to the ground.

And, the meat of the fruit is tasty to the bear, deer or any other animal as it injests that fruit and goes away and replants that seed away from the mother tree when the animal excretes the pits/seeds.... The cycle of life.

So, yes, in order to bear more fruit and fertilize the ground and make more dirt through the decay of forest branches and trees, something must die to be productive.

Answer 5

I guess they are saying like "Every cloud has a silver lining"

perhaps birds can nest in it and others benefit from the dead tree.

Answer 6

if u contribute anything to your belief it will be helpful. Add a dead tree then it will help your mountain.

Answer 7

maybe on the most basic level it means that there can be good found in all bad.

Answer 8

it means that "there is a silver lining in every cloud"....there is always a pro and con of everything we do

Answer 9

Treat everyone as equals, no matter how many mistakes they have made

Answer 10

THAT THERE ISNT ANYTHING TOTALLY WITHOUT VALUE