Quite a few trees might have won a stay of execution because people view them as divine beings. Yet such people are not treating a tree as a tree, and they tend to overlook what it is that the nature of a big tree really demands.
雖然有不少老樹因為被敬為樹王公，身分不同凡響而被刀下留樹，但人們反而不再把樹當樹，忽視了大樹本身的需求。