Well obviously if you make something it has to be left somewhere. If you make rubbish it gets left behind at a rubbish dump, or where every you are. It is used to tell people how the more rubbish and damage they make, the more damage you leave the environment with. I'm sure that's not the original meaning of it but it is commonly used.
foot prints
The more footsteps you take the more you leave behind.
The more footsteps you take the more you leave behind.
Mess. The more mess you make, the more mess you leave behind.footprints
Footsteps.
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The answer to the riddle "The more you take, the more you leave behind" is "footsteps." As you walk and take more steps, you leave a greater number of footprints behind you. This clever play on words highlights the relationship between movement and the trace it leaves.
Well, if you take something, you leave the rest behind somewhere else. It is like chicken and macarooni
take lots of things but leave family behind