The Master, coming from a walk through a dying forest,
observed these X-mas trees, in the market place. Healthy young
trees, having been cut down for a fortnight's cheap fun. He
remarked to Tse Ne Ka : "When they are all so set upon killing
themselves, when that is their Way, good, but let them at least
save the trees, the birds and fishes, the rabbits and squirrels.
Let them inherit the planet when we have not enough dignity to
guard the prize ourselves.!"
His pupil just kept silence. [8]