Until World War II, Britain ran international finance to its liking, and Americans were thirsting to chop it down to size.
We put four hundred and four prayers into the Tree of Life, and then we chop it down by hand.
If you want to build a bookcase, you can find a nice tree, chop it down, mill it, sand the wood and hammer in some nails.
If digging up the lilac will damage lots of the hemlock roots, it might be better to just chop it down and start fresh.
"Chop it down!" they pleaded, but de Betak, who strikes one as cheerfully compulsive and happily headstrong, insisted, and now a spa-worthy shower wraps around that natural wonder.
Meanwhile, laws protecting the Chilean pine tree state that only the great-grandson of the man who planted the tree can chop it down, and while legislation allows public workers to strike, they must make up their hours another time.
"For every person who's against a high hedge, there's someone who's in favor of it, because otherwise they'd chop it down," said Christopher Chope, a Conservative member of Parliament.
Having to accommodate the escalating number of students, south Manchester has been more or less concreted over; gardens have been filled in to make way for cars and dustbins; it is almost as if the policy has actually been "see a tree, chop it down".
Judge Jurjen Bade said Amsterdam officials should look into ways to save the 150-year-old tree and not proceed with plans to chop it down today despite their concerns that it could topple over as a fungal disease has spread through most of the trunk.
