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# Tree-inspired parable
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/tree-inspired-parable-editor/
- Published: 2007-06-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T01:18:08.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Lowe Santa Monica*

Walking along Fourth Street in Santa Monica early in the morning, looking at the trees that line the blocks between Wilshire Boulevard and Broadway, trees that some greedy merchants in town want to cut down, this parable popped into mind: “It is harder for a man to enter the kingdom of heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.” Why... because the rich tend to covet material things over their spiritual nature.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 25, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062507.pdf?ref=smdp.com)