"A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe... What a terrible future!" 

~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatists and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. 
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