" You see , Mr . Kovacs , that engineer was a man in his thirties , and to him the tree was just an inconvenience . It was in his way . The fact it had been part of the world for over twenty times the length of his own life didn ’ t seem to bother him . He had no respect . "
«Понимаете, мистер Ковач, этому инженеру было около тридцати лет, и для него дерево было просто неудобством. собственная жизнь, похоже, его не беспокоила. У него не было никакого уважения».