Cut the fence, not the branch!

It's only recently that I have noticed that in my school, they would rather cut a portion of the fence so that the tree can be kept as a whole and not with one part missing. Well, maybe this is what you get when your university had to be presentable to visitors and outsiders, especially when it is supposed to be a high ranking one. But the hole in the fence surely looked awkward, not that I don't like the way the tree branch is passing through the fence, but still, having holes here and there and with tree branches poking out and all, it's quite a rare sight. Still, who would have appreciated these stuff? Or even noticed it in the first place? At the very least, it is due to the kindness of the gardener that the tree is able to keep its branch, receive the extra amount of sunlight and flourish even more. Sure enough, the tree is incapable of saying thanks, except for providing extra shelter for people who happened to have walked pass. Come to think of that, how many times have we thanked someone who did small favours for you, so small that it all seemed all too insignificant?

Little efforts which we gave each day might not seem much, but it might be flesh and blood for others. Shouldn't the environment be treated just this way? I mean, if the branch is being chopped so that the fence can look more decent and all, then there won't be extra oxygen provided by the tree, and less gaseous carbon compounds will be filtered off and less carbon dioxide will be consumed. Well, in the end, we are also listed under the parties who benifit from all these. True?