As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Like people, trees are all individuals.
In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.