Children, I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs!"
My friends, like myself, have been skirting this danger for a long time, without ever knowing it; and so it is for them that I have worked so hard over this drawing.
The lesson which I pass on by this means is worth all the trouble it has cost me.
Perhaps you will ask me, "Why are there no other drawing in this book as magnificent and impressive as this drawing of the baobabs?"
The reply is simple. I have tried.
But with the others I have not been successful.
When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.
Chapter 6
Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life . . .
For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.