Land Without Trees

When I was a young girl,
I remember living in a small town with lots of
Large, Wide, Old Trees.
Trees where two or three children with joined hands
could barely touch to make a circle.
In the last ten years that I have lived in New England
I have witnessed the chopping down of vast numbers of trees for
residential and commercial developments.
This, I realize, has already happened in several other
communities and countries for generation upon generation.
Yet with the populations constant growth
and undeveloped land becoming more scarce…
I feel that it may be time for all of us to reassess
how we approach the development of land.
This Blackstone Valley, which I have known for its' untouched
beauty, is becoming more and more barren of trees every day.

There is a way to develop land without taking down all the trees.
It costs more to do so, but at what price of damage
to the air and the earth are we saving money?
The trees are our main source of Oxygen on the planet.
It has become en vogue
to have properties that are almost treeless.

Please consider bringing trees back into style…
Please consider their importance.
Please consider alternate ways of developing land.
Please consider protecting the trees in your community.

A land without trees…
Would that even be considered land at all?
And who would be alive to consider it?

Jean Marie Paradis
Artist