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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, did it make a sound? No, you have to be present to realize the sound.

Everytime I see that trees are cut for Christmas I see people being wasteful. I know that this is a lucrative business and it is apparently very easy to continually employ people to grow these trees to replenish those that they cut,destroy, and sell. I suppose it is considered beneficial to add fuel to a barbecue fire to roast a pig on a spit,but, this is a commercial affectation which is needless. The key is that these trees are live. They have to be live to grow, but why can't they grow in a planter and instead be bought to be kept for a few years?

The tree could be kept outside, watered, fertilized, and protected until the next Christmas. Destroying trees for pleasure is the work of low class citizens whom seek to purposely and consciously defile live trees and destroy public property.

When a graffiti smearing culprit offends the community with his defacement of proprietary and community participation that is businesses lifeline, he ruins the regard for the entity which others value.

There is much litter as a result of wasting the trees by using them for only a couple days, and they eventually find their way to the curbside. There they turn a bronze yellowish and their pine needles become brittle and break away. However, dogs are very impressed by this outpour of refuse, since they can smell the whole tree and can mark it very effectively.

Meanwhile, trees lay on their side and display their dispute with their posthumous treatment. There is a no fault air of dead trees lying sideways as though rigomortus set in. Anything else left for weeks (that would degrade with time) similarly would be offensive and the City department of Rubbish removal would be complained to.

Is cutting down a person by belittling him elevating his attendance as company? How can people take cut trees into their house and celebrate its destruction saying, "we'll praise our g-d and bestow gifts upon the tree". I would think the ultimate gift would be to protect the Christmas trees life. I just don't see the honor in owning a dead tree.

Owning a dead tree is similar to owning a battery dead car; is there anything good about it? The battery like the tree needs to eventually be replaced. This is great for the vendors, but wrong in its decency. Decency is falling pray to commercialism and advertising. Sales is primary; never mind how its received personally. If you're going to buy a Christmas tree, buy it live and keep it like you would any other plant.

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