But Van Horn does not need another tree-falls-in-a-forest koan to validate the Nets.
"She doesn't know it!" Mr. Beatty was galled when his own behavior had a tree-falling-in-a-forest effect.
"This is like watching a tree fall in the forest," he said.
On the afternoon after I heard the proverbial tree fall in the forest, I hiked into the mountains above Borobudur.
Listening to the roar of howler monkeys rise and fall in the forest, I drifted dreamily off and was caught up in a powerful current.
Arbiters are not created in a void any more than trees can fall in a forest if no one hears them.
A tree may fall in a forest and not make a sound; but at the University of Sydney they send out a press release.
Instead, there's social media, where narcissism rules and a tree can't fall in the forest without not only being heard but also felt.
It has added assets in terms of shopping, he said, citing the Rego Park Center mall, a New York Sports Club branch that opened in June and a Trader Joe's store that is set to open this fall in Forest Hills just over the Rego Park border.
Don't let your hard work be the metaphorical tree falling in the forest - make sure to be shouting "timber!" along with it.
Fruit bodies are found growing solitary or scattered, on dead fallen twigs in forests that are dominated by oak and chinquapin trees.
