"No matter how many hundreds of thousands of people crammed into small places, they tried to disfigure the land on which they settled, no matter how they filled it with stone so that nothing could grow on it, no matter how zealously they uprooted every sprouting blade of grass, no matter how they smoked the air with coal and oil, no matter how much they mutilated the trees, and they chased away all the birds and all four-legged creatures - spring was still spring, even in the city.
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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No matter how many hundreds of thousands of people crammed into small places, they tried to disfigure the land on which they settled, no matter how they filled it with stone so that nothing could grow on it, no matter how zealously they uprooted every sprouting blade of grass, no matter how they smoked the air with coal and oil, no matter how much they mutilated the trees, and they chased away all the birds and all four-legged creatures - spring was still spring, even in the city.
""Akárhogyan igyekeztek is az emberek sok százezrével kis helyre összezsúfolódva elcsúfítani a földet, amelyen megtelepedtek, akárhogyan teleépítették kővel, hogy semmi se teremjen rajta, akármilyen buzgón kiirtottak is minden előtörő fűszálat, akárhogy összefüstölték kőszénnel meg olajjal a levegőt, akármennyire megcsonkították is a fákat, s elüldöztek minden madarat meg négylábút - a tavasz mégis tavasz volt, még a városban is."