BRUCE COCKBURN - If A Tree Falls

ingeniusable Says:

Jan 6, 2011 - Great video, great music, great lyrics, great song. This song had an enormous effect on me emotionally when I first heard it and it still does after all these years.

themooddisorders Says:

Jan 9, 2011 - and to think my mom talked about this song to me!She said if a tree farts in the forest....maybe she missed the point!

n8tureboy Says:

Jan 14, 2011 - @link2217 LOL!!! Synthetic wood, Oh wait, that's made from petro-chemicals. Damn, is there anything that doesn't extract resources from the environment. A much to do about nothing isn't it?Good forestry is scientific and it's beneficial to a healthy forest. Don't let the mean-greenies stop civilization from progressing. These people want to de-industrialize the world. I'm not against the environment, but let's not throw the baby with the bath water folks.

jellkilla42 Says:

Jan 17, 2011 - can something exist if it is not precieved?

TheAnitamul Says:

Jan 29, 2011 - yes yes yes!!

junktionshit Says:

Mar 12, 2011 - imagin wut kind of houses we would have ,if they didnt cut any of the trees ?

SupernalOne Says:

Mar 18, 2011 - If a tree falls in the forest, and it lands on a mime, does anybody care?

eleventyfivee Says:

Apr 1, 2011 - "Behold, I will make all things new."....Jesus Christ

judgegixxer Says:

Apr 11, 2011 - Yesterday I saw David Suzuki and Bruce Cockburn show up at Mcdonalds in a Blinged out Hummer......of course I'm kidding.

Mosux2007 Says:

Apr 19, 2011 - How many trees were cut down to make the paper Cockburn wrote his lyrics on? Just askin'.

NancanUno Says:

Apr 26, 2011 - ...yes, but when is enough enough? Does everyone have to have a 20,000 square foot house? How about we all have Hummers?... Better yet, let's all have 10 + kids! Do we need to take out a species to fill our sushi plate?...Just saying

shredithard1 Says:

May 1, 2011 - I agree... there should be laws against some of the ridiculous so called 'right's' as people that we all have. Should it be legal at this point to be able to build a massive house or drive a Hummer? I don't think so. Not in the state that the environment is currently in. Society needs to re-think what people should actually have the right to do.

MrDogoman Says:

May 6, 2011 - yup i was right comment pending approval 

SexyJimboTim Says:

May 15, 2011 - I'm in environmental sciences and would like to state that not all forestry is unsustainable as some may gather from this song. But on the other side we as people are being stupid and I love this song!!!

scotttcropo Says:

Aug 26, 2011 - we dont own this land it owns us!! let mother nature be

TheCooper1967 Says:

Aug 29, 2011 - please look out for our life everyone ..best song ever

terrybeaton Says:

Aug 30, 2011 - I still am yet to see another guitar player use the wammy-bar like that while singing. And the way he puntuates it with those amazing little rythmic "chops". That would be enough for me, but the words stab right at the political heart of it all. Intelligence and virtuosity, solid Cockburn!

sh9683 Says:

Sep 14, 2011 - need songs for that look up serj tankian and system of a down great political groups taht are strong against new world order

johnnytime969 Says:

Sep 21, 2011 - why does this guy pronounce his name different than it's spelled?

nightowl905 Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - Well said, could not agree more. Cheers.

Cocteau120 Says:

Oct 25, 2011 - That's a cultural construct. Nature is predatory and prone to endemic warfare. One species ruthlessly assaults another for its own mercenary survival. Man's exploitation of nature is as natural as morning foam on the sea. It's a part of our evolution. If you want to believe in this religion of environmentalism, that's fine. But don't pretend there's anything natural about it. It's decidedly unnatural.

misspussycatify Says:

Nov 1, 2011 - Republican what a load of shite!

SoleIntention Says:

Nov 11, 2011 - He didn't say it was natural.

DanielGillismusic Says:

Nov 19, 2011 - You are confusing what it means to be human. Our ability to think critically, and resist primal urges through our ability to learn, abstract, and sympathize. This is HUMAN nature. If you want to be with the animals, fine, but that is not natural, it is copping out.