On Behalf of Trees
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On Behalf of Trees

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 4, 20262 min
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Did God do it in wisdom or as a sick joke?

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On behalf of trees by Zoe Caldwell, they say God got lonely and created us folk. Did God do it in wisdom or as a sick joke? Were the image of him or the image of her? We're not wearing antlers, we're not born with fur, but did God really know when

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And he gave us all birth, what havoc we'd wreak upon this good earth. They say we're superior, the most highly evolved, but in all these millennia we still haven't solved how to live in this world harmoniously. So we pollute the atmosphere, rivers, and sea.

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Like this summer, for instance, so mind-blowingly hot was not about what you could do, but could not, because of insecticides couldn't eat peaches and with bloodied syringes couldn't swim in the beaches. To breathe was quite dangerous, not breathing was worse, till it seemed as though merely

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