If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them…

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

1991

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Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels, season 17, episode 3, NBC, 12 Oct. 1991.

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