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Article: GARDENING : CARE, REPLENISHMENT OF TREES A HIGH PRIORITY.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- September 28, 1996
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Byline: Joshua Siskin
At the end of the 20th century, a sense of loss pervades our view of nature. Children suffer most from this gloomy perspective. At school nowadays, when the subject of trees is introduced, the teacher is sure to mention that our forests are in danger and that, at this very moment, dozens of species of forest plants and animals are disappearing from the face of the Earth forever.
Yet, just when you think this negativity is overdone - and certainly more focus should be placed on the planting and growing of trees than on their destruction - something so bizarre and tragic happens that you wonder if limits to the ecological ignorance ...