Cutting Down A Tree
It is an singular phenomenon that human beings will endeavor to cut down in the space of day what took nature 100 years to produce most often in the name of some perceived danger.
The danger, of course, is that the tree might drop some leaves or some undesirable pods on a building structure. Of course, the building structure wasn't there when the tree was planted by nature. Trees, generally, don't gain feet and walk around much and throw limbs at passer-bys Wizard Of Oz and Lord of the Rings exempting.
Otherwise, the tree might have a branch fall on a power line, despite the fact that the tree was there long before the power line providing homes for a multitude of the creatures of nature as well as nourishment--not to mention adding to the oxygen supply. However, the tree, especially during storms, might lose branches, and we just cannot abide by the fact that the condition of storms that are severe enough are the exception--and should they be happening--perhaps the storms are there to tell us something about ourselves. Ironic then, that we outsource our problems on the thing that has enabled us to build homes, buildings, and yes, even telephone polls.
At the core of the problem is an overly anal, prideful position that nature is somehow inferior to whatever man has built. So far, I have not seen man build a tree.
Strangely enough, I don't often see man attempt to plant trees either. The focus is on presumed control over nature, not realizing that humanity and the spaces it can exist within are products of nature.
There might be a time for clearing out some trees when a person is building or planting. The time for not clearing out a tree is when an insurance policy is nervous about the existence of a tree. If anything, the insurance policy should be nervous when they begin to see fewer trees because the "at risk" level to people behind insurance agencies might be much greater for the absence of nature.