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Cutting trees for parking unnecessary

TCU has always seemed to me a tree-friendly place. The scattered trees of my youth here have become a lovely canopy. This is part of the reason I am so profoundly saddened by the destruction of all those magnificent pecan trees on Lowden Street to provide a few more parking places for people too lazy to walk another block. Maybe I have misjudged us. About the time these great trees were being planted almost a century ago, John Muir said, “Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away.” And concerning massive old trees like the ones we have just cut down, he said that during our lives “only saplings can be grown in the place of the old trees that have been destroyed ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease ... and a thousand straining, leveling tempests. But God cannot save them from fools.”

The trees on Lowden provided oxygen, shade, beauty, pecans and a sense of time and history. Asphalt will not.

— Joseph Jeter, Jr., Walker Professor of Homileticstory