Trees Need Respect Too

TREES NEED RESPECT TOO

by Antonio C. Antonio

June 29, 2014

Some five years ago, Nonoy and Cory Alindogan invited my wife and me for lunch at their beautiful house in Alabang, Muntinlupa.  Over lunch, Ninong Nonoy (as he was our wedding Godfather) informed us that the lot they built their house on used to be part of the mango tree plantation of the Madrigals.  Curiously, though, most of their neighbors felled the mango trees to make way for their houses.  This is not the case for Ninong Nonoy and Ninang Cory… they actually built their house around the existing mango trees (some 5 or 6 of them) in their lot.  Their marching order to their architect was: “Move the house if you have to… but the trees will have to stay where they are!”

Mango trees, like all fruit-bearing tress, provide food, oxygen and carbon-sequestration which are very important in supporting life on this planet.  It is quite appalling when people clear-cut trees simply because they want to see their houses built they way they were drawn by their architects.  There are ways to built infrastructure without necessarily cutting down trees.  (Please see the images in this blog.)

There is little that trees ask of us… they also want to live and co-exist with us.  As much as we work hard for respect, trees have worked hard serving humanity for so long… trees need respect too.

Just my little thoughts…

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