Assassinated: A Green Umbrella

Mercilessly grounded?

One un-appealing component (for whom?) makes way

Trees are the green lungs of the universe. Their green umbrellas protect us by taking up the threat from the Sun and Rain GODS. In their dangling branches and in the innumerable crevices in the bole, they provide refuge for a diversity of organisms. Large and microscopic.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.  But even HE cannot save them from fools  (John Muir)

Neither, could I.