A tree is cut; Srila Prabhupada's response

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

In this place you [Srila Prabhupada] manifested your divine anger when the
devotees foolishly cut down very large and beautiful tree that had been
standing in the courtyard. It had been one of the real opulences of the temple.
The heavy winds of a Texas storm had knocked it over so that it was leaning on
the roof of the prasadam hall at about a sixty degree angle. The devotees,
thinking it would eventually come down through the roof, had taken an electric
saw and dismantled it limb by limb. You scolded the devotees, saying, "This is
your brute Western mentality: if something is wrong, immediately kill it." The
dent where the tree hit the building is still visible in the metal on the edge
of the roof above the prasadam hall.

From Dallas Vyasa-puja offering 1990