Can't he see that it's not right for him to cut down the tree that gives him, and his kind, such benevolent shade?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir displayed in Seattle, Washington.
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In many areas local utility companies will even cut back your wayward tree branches free of charge if they sit too close to electrical lines.
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The tree is cut down one day in November during a ceremony in which the Lord Mayor of Westminster, the British ambassador to Norway and the Mayor of Oslo take active part.
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Two years later, in 2008, then-U.S. captain Paul Azinger was determined to make similar changes, including having a tree limb cut down after one team member found it was disrupting his tee shot on the 16th hole.
It is said that the Romans often cut down a fir tree to keep in their houses during the sparse winter months as a form of appeasement to the goddess Ceres (originally Demeter, Greek goddess of the hearth).
Ms. Malone's Sunrise Tree Farm also offers choose-and-cut trees, which now generate a quarter of total tree sales.
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Campaigners fighting plans to cut down a historic elm tree in Brighton have ended their protest after the city council agreed to hold talks with them.
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The Holy Thorn tree on Wearyall Hill, which had its branches cut off by vandals in 2010, is said to have been grown from a cutting from the original tree.
Oosthuizen caught a break when his ball bounced off a tree back into the first cut.
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You don't look at a tree and say, well, I've cut the branch here and cut it here and all of a sudden I've got a baseball bat.
The 27-tonne tree is diseased with fungi and the owner wants it cut down as he would be liable for any damage caused should it fall.
"Thanet Council's planning officer has stated 20 trees will be cut down, but the speakers at the demonstration felt that not one tree should go, " he said.
Once you have found the perfect tree, he says, you have to wait for the perfect day to cut it down.
Instead, we should explore less unpleasant ways to cut energy use though such things as incentives for decentralizing work, promoting home-based labor, more tree planning and effective insulation.
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