"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring . "-- Aldo Leopold, nature writer.
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While the societal moral is the same, the oak's argument that'one swallow does not make a summer'looks back to the emblematic story of the gourd and the pine tree.
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In England the fable does not appear in collections before the 17th century, but the proverb, in the form'One swallow does not make a summer', is recorded a century earlier.
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While the contemporary occurrence may deserve noting, he would not have it supposed that he even leans towards hastily connecting them . One swallow does not make a summer . )