People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard . . . . You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.
Roger B. Swain (1983). “Field days: journal of an itinerant biologist”, Macmillan Reference USA
