An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step, along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school, and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else, something more--they were all lies. Emily Whitman
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To be clear, the quote "An alder tree can't become an oak at will" is not based on any specific idea. However, the message is very simple. It’s about how some things are not meant to happen naturally. You cannot simply decide to become someone else or do things differently because that’s not how it happens.

If you want to become more successful, for example, you have to work at it. And if you want to walk on water, you have to put your mind to it so that you can achieve your goals.

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