Percy Bysshe Shelley — "I love to see a tree, which has been growing a hundred years, cut down and split…"
I love to see a tree, which has been growing a hundred years, cut down and split into planks.
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From a letter to Elizabeth Hitchener, expressing an unusual appreciation for the utility of nature's destruction.
Date: 1811
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