In this tale of a king’s vanity and a tree’s life, Environmental Storyteller Michael R. Malley (aka Michael Kasony-O’Malley) engages in a bit of “Green Storytelling.”

Michael expands Storyteller Marie Shedlock’s 1920 recording of this Buddhist Jataka Tale from India, honoring the trees through this Earth Mother Story.

(Music: Courtesy of Adrian von Ziegler, "Prophecy." )