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I wonder if this is the source of a Jack Handey joke: "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."

This reminds me of an Upton Sinclair quote: “was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whine this hog personality was precious. To whome these hog squeals and agonies had meaning?”

I think the BFG could also hear the screams of trees as they were being chopped down.

Sources online agree with you.

> The BFG could hear the tread of a ladybird's footsteps as she walks across a leaf, the whispering of ants as they carry around in the soil talking to one another, and the sudden shrill cry of pain a tree gives out when a woodman cuts into it with an axe.

https://www.icsestudyguide.com/2020/10/class-5-english-liter...

https://youtu.be/QDiUvLl3zpg was also an episode of Tales of the Unexpected

That was a cool read. It took me on a long journey to find references to it... seems like there's actually some truth to it.