Utica man says city cut down wrong tree

[Ralph]

Face it, the property you own isn't really yours anyways. The city just lets you do with it what they permit you to do for a nominal fee.

Doubt my words? Just stop paying your property taxes for a few years and see just who owns what!

[concerned]

at night they take the O2 and make CO2. it's a vicious circle.

Do you know that plants will register a nervous response when something threatens them. You need a sensitive osillescope to measure this but I saw it happen once when a goldfish in a bowl placed next to a plant, died. It was shocking to the plant. Just imagine what a tree feels when it is cut down. All it phoelm and phlem tubes being cut in half stopping its life functions( transporation pull- cohesive-tension theory) Now what made me think of this. Ralph's static electricity post.lol

[Clipper]

Gee thanks for all that info Concerned. I now feel guilty about all the emotional trauma I must have caused for the trees in my front yard when I cut down "one of their own", put it through a rented chipper, and used the stump grinder to decimate it's very roots.

[dgriffin]

What has always amazed me about a tree (any plant life, actually) is that they make themselves out of thin air! They take the CO2 from the air and make it into cells (Concerned can provide details), with help from minerals in the soil an circulated by water from the ground.

If I had wondered about it before I learned that, I guess I would have assumed the material came from the ground. But then, a tree would dig itself into a hole as it grew.

[concerned]

ahaa, human's being created and nourished like a tree, even they dig themselves into a hole.

[concerned]

Clipper---that's why humanity feels so angry when" humans cut down one of there very own" I guess that is why all of creation cried out when Jesus was cut down by there very own.