"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 The forests condition the climate, the climate influences the character of the people, and so on and so forth. There is no civilization, no happiness, where forests shudder beneath the axe, where the climate is cruel and hard, where the people are also cruel and hard. A terrible future!"
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in:: Chekhov on Theatre, Hal Leonard Corporation, 1 April 2013, p. 1886.
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