consider the life of the leaf!
it's first fledgling growth is thwarted by larva of much larger insects.
birds also do unspeakable things to them. they are green for awile and then they change colors.
wither up and are wind blown off the tree to be carried wherever the wind deems them to go.
helpless to guide their own course. unable to prevent being grabbed by an unknown hand to be heated in wax paper and crayon, torn alnog it's fragile veins to see it tear in a new cool way, and heaped into a pile to be rolled and crushed and finally dumped on the hard ground to fertilize something else.
I'm glad I'm not a leaf!!!