by Mark Roberts | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
I have a friend who is a philosopher. A real philosopher, not some try hard YouTuber or dribbling drunk. She is a professor at the local university, her area of expertise is metaphysics and her subject is time. She is very good at her job and leaving her work at the...
by Mark Roberts | Nov 18, 2021 | How to, Trees
The expression, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, relates to people who become falsely overconfident about their expertise in a certain subject if they possess a small amount of knowledge about it. As conversations go, this sort of thing is annoying if you are...
by Mark Roberts | Sep 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
I secured a speaking spot at the World Urban Parks Asia-Pacific Congress last year before COVID took it away from all of us. As conferences go, the name was a bit of a mouthful. The timing was ideal as it started a day after the Asia-Pacific Tree Climbing...
by Mark Roberts | Sep 7, 2021 | Nature, Trees
As you read this you are probably sitting in a room that is hollow; a building with walls and empty internal spaces, rooms. You could be in your work vehicle; a hollow structure with outside walls and an inside space, the cab. You may well be drinking from a cup, can...
by Mark Roberts | Aug 23, 2021 | Trees
I was asked to give a presentation on tree pruning to a group of gardeners. Commercial Gardeners, so not passionate homeowners or obsessive vegetable growers, this was a talk to a single employer with 50 employees. For most of them being a gardener was a job title,...
