This Is Breaking My Heart

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Don't worry folks this is not another animal rights issue, but something else very dear to my heart...trees..or more accurately anything to do with nature in general..and this is a vent of mine and much closer to home. I have lived in my apartment building since I was five years old.. My grandmother, mother and I moved here in 1961 to this apartment complex that are called "garden" apartments and are only three stories high and were built in the pre-war years..so 1930s??? As you can guess because these were garden apartment buildings, in the little backyard area was some land area that had these magnificent trees that were either the same age of the building or may have existed prior to the building of the apartment complex...so over 70 years old..all I know is that the beautiful trees that have been there were so tall to look up, would make one dizzy with their height For the past week or so, I was aware of this strange noises going on..now I live in the front of the building, not the back so I couldn't see or know what was going on until just recently. What it amounts to is that the landlord for whatever friggin' reason has decided that he didn't want the trees anymore..so yes, they've been cutting them all down...These beautiful trees,...they're not diseased trees, but were healthy ones...From what I gather too, some of the tenants in the back apartments complained that the branches were brushing up against their windows and they didn't like it...So like WTF---can't just the "offending" branches be cut off or trimmed rather than chopping/cutting down the whole tree?? I had gotten pi$$ed off some years ago, when the neighbor upstairs complained that one of the branches of the tree in front of the apartment, and thus in front of my window brushed up against her window, and the a$$hole super hacked off the offending branch...I used to love listened to the leaves rustling against my window...it didn't bother me, and it also provided a nice sense of privacy from anyone peering into my apartment from the 8-story apartment building across the street. As far as I know there is only one tree left...some years ago the landlord also had put gates up preventing anyone from going into the backyard area....so today I did go down into the little alleyway that at least leads to the backyard area and looking from the gate area could still see my favorite tree still standing...it's the tree where underneath is a virtual pet cemetery where I buried my former pet birds, mice and the baby kittens that were born, but died very young. I would like to be able to somehow unlock the gate (heheh) just to see how many trees were cut down..but maybe that would only anger me all the more. I feel so pi$$ed off though...I mean lets face it -- these trees are on our property, therefore the landlord's so he has the so-called right to do whatever he wants...and I'm wondering though if any of my so-called wonderful neighbors feel just as ticked off or if I'm the only weirdo. I mean for crying out loud...doesn't anyone else get ticked off at so-called "progress"...if I lived in anyone of those back apartments I would love to have the shade of a tree to block the hot summer sun, or to look out and not only see the trees but maybe see the birds nestling on the branches--like does anyone give a shat anymore? Okay I know I'm ranting and venting here....But have any of you had some kind of similar experience where some so-called "improvement" was made in your neighborhood, home or building, and the result was the destruction of something beautiful????