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| This is a very sad story about a beautiful old tree. |
This river birch has been a fixture on our block for over 60 years. The city used to maintain the trees, but over the years they stopped, and when a neighbor called the city to come and please trim the tree, the city deemed it too big and said it had to be removed. Many of us did all we could and even volunteered to pay for a tree company to come and trim it up, but since it was on the street side of the sidewalk, it was city property and they could do what they wanted.
When word got out that the tree was to removed this week, some artists came to try to at least help us feel better about our loss. By the time the tree company came to remove the tree, it was covered in thank you notes like these.
But there was no stopping the removal, and it is gone now. The foliage that kept us and the birds cool, and helped the environment did not matter. We are upset, angry and so sad.
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From an article about Bruce Springsteen: "At one point late in the show, Springsteen gives a monologue about going back to his childhood home and expecting to see the big, beautiful copper beech tree that stood in the front yard when he was young. He arrives to find the tree gone, cut down by the county for some reason he can’t discern. But then Bruce explains that the tree wasn’t really gone: its presence was still there, floating in the air, filled with starlight and moonlight and refracting all the time and memories and people that had passed it by. “My great tree’s life couldn’t be ended or erased so easily, because of its history,” he says. “Its imprint was too great, and it was too old, and it was too strong, and it had been there too long to be done away with so easily. It had stood witness to everything that had happened on these small streets beneath its arms. All the joy. And all the heartbreak. And all the life. We live amongst ghosts, always trying to reach us from that shadow world. And they’re with us every step of the way.”
This is so sad. We need more trees, not fewer of them.
Hi friends, Ojo here! This is Very Sad! It's the opposite where I live, the trees can never go away, even when they're sick! We are very sorry to hear about your tree!
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