#22 My Tree--Happy St. Patrick's Day Evening

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life;

like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Forests create climate,

climate influences peoples’ character,

and so on and so forth.

There can be neither civilization nor

happiness if forests crash down under the axe,

if the climate is harsh and severe,

if people are also harsh and severe....What a terrible future!

- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov