And one day he said to me: "You ought to make a beautiful drawing, so that the children where you live can see exactly how all this is.
That would be very useful to them if they were to travel some day.
Sometimes," he added, "there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe.
I knew a planet that was inhabited by a lazy man.
He neglected three little bushes . . ."
So, as the little prince described it to me, I have made a drawing of that planet.
I do not much like to take the tone of a moralist.
But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, that for once I am breaking through my reserve.
But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, that for once I am breaking through my reserve.