O pure-hearted ones, your father, Prācīnabarhi, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead have ordered you to generate population. Therefore how can you burn to ashes these trees and herbs, which are needed for the maintenance of your subjects and descendants?
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
यूयं च पित्रान्वादिष्टा देवदेवेन चानघाः । प्रजासर्गाय हि कथं वृक्षान् निर्दग्धुमर्हथ
yūyaṃ ca pitrānvādiṣṭā devadevena cānaghāḥ | prajāsargāya hi kathaṃ vṛkṣān nirdagdhumarhatha
SB 6.4.10