proverb · Words worth keeping
A fig tree found on the way is enough to keep you from starving.
A fig tree found on the way is enough to keep you from starving.
Historical period not yet established
Understand the thought
Meaning in plain English
A fig tree along the way presented as enough against starvation gives a timely resource an image of relief. The saying values help encountered when needed.
What the words are saying
The sentence is not a nutrition, foraging or survival rule. A qualified social reading can recognise useful assistance without assuming one resource resolves every need. What is safe, sufficient or accessible must not be inferred from the proverb’s image.
Everyday example
Someone appreciates immediate help while arranging further support for needs that remain.
When to use it
Use it only as a qualified timely-resource image.
What it does not mean
No safe food identification or prevention of starvation is established.
Agent-assisted editorial interpretation. This explains the words; it does not by itself verify their author or earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
South Africa
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin.- Historical period
- Historical period not yet established
No sufficiently supported historical placement has been established. Import and download dates are not treated as composition dates. - Recorded source
- Contributor-provided wisdom reference (2014 AD)
Supplied reference B; unit 702; PDF page 63; collection label: South Africa
A collection's publication date can be later than the words it records.
- Culture
- South Africa