When I was younger, I always wondered how the trees got leaves in the spring after they had fallen off during the fall. The most logical explanation I could come up with was that the fallen leaves magically floated back up to the branches of the tree and became green again. I would always get upset when my mother would sweep up all the dead leaves on the sidewalk outside our house because I thought she was stealing the tree's leaves.
I believed this until I was about 11 or 12 and finally realized that trees regrow their leaves every year.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I believed that leaves on trees only became individual when you you close to them, and then I got glasses.— nola
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- Trees grew leaves as camouflage so birds would`nd nest in them. Don`t ask.— DaWind
- When I was about seven, I was utterly convinced that chickens had leaves and trees had feathers.— Confused
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters