When they asked the Euphrates, “Why don’t you let us hear your voice?” it answered, “I have no need to; my actions speak for themselves. A man plants a sapling at my edge and it will bear fruit in thirty days, and if he plants a vegetable, it will grow in three.”

They asked the fruit trees, “Why aren’t your voices heard?” They answered, “It is not necessary. Our fruits give testimony to our existence.”

-- Genesis Rabbah 16:3

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