我年轻的时候，砍较大，较老的树当木柴，树芯腐烂，朽枯
断了树枝的那种，歪歪扭扭曲变形的那种，
因为，我推断，不管怎样，反正它们很快就会倒下，
因而，我应该给比较小的树更多的阳光和空间生长。
现在我逐渐老了，我砍比较小的，强壮，结实，
坚硬优美的树，我让比较大的树再多拥有
几年的阳光和水和树叶，它们在森林里认识了那么久。
很快它们就将被放倒在地上。
When I was young, I cut the bigger, older trees for firewood, the ones
with heart rot, dead and broken branches, the crippled and deformed
ones, because, I reasoned, they were going to fall soon anyway, and
therefore, I should give the younger trees more light and room to grow.
Now I’m older and I cut the younger, strong and sturdy, solid
and beautiful trees, and I let the older ones have a few more years
of light and water and leaf in the forest they have known so long.
Soon enough they will be prostrate on the ground.
