There is little justification for that type of trimming. But, I have heard some excuses or sad attempts at reasoning:
I have heard of people doing it because they feared that once a tree got to big, that it might fall upon their home, injuring them and destroying everything!! I have also heard of excessive trimming of trees along bike paths to protect bikers from injury due to falling branches due to liability incurred in an actual previous event. One person did such a topping because they didn't want so many leaves to rake or fall into the gutters, but still wanted the tree around. Apparently it was some kind of compromise to butcher it? PJ ---- Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: ============= Don, Mankind is part of nature. I don't agree with many of the posts saying "woe, if only people were not here the world would be so much better off." However I can't give the person responsible for this "trimming" the benefit of the doubt. I don't see that the topping of these particular trees served any useful purpose, except for lining the pockets of the person doing the trimming. Sure different people have different perspective on what is right or wrong, or what needs to be done, but everything can not be set in a blinding fog of gray. There are points at which certain actions are simply wrong. This is one of those cases. Ed “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again” Ralph Waldo Emerson ----- Original Message ----- From: DON BERTOLETTE To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 5:04 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees Ed- The logical extension of your response is that mankind does not deserve to be a part of nature...? -Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Mutilated Trees Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:59:04 -0500 Mutilated! “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again” Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. See how it works. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
