There is a quote that goes something like, ‘You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed’. It comes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery children’s book Le Petit Prince. I’ve not read the book but the quote conjures up a someone wanting a creature and through ways or means they get it, then shortly thereafter they become ...
I have a theory that trees can’t read. My theory is based in part because I’ve never seen a tree purchase a book and in part because trees don’t always do what they are supposed to do – according to the many books about trees at least. I can think of several examples where trees ...
I accept that strange things happen – because they do, I accept that trees don’t always do what they are supposed to do – because they don’t and I am comfortable with this – because I am. What I am not comfortable with and what I can’t accept is the traditional twaddle that is done ...
Visualise if you will, a Lion’s tail; a smooth tapering tail with a tuft of fur at the end. When seen on a lion or a feather duster the silhouette is correct, it looks natural and is acceptable to the eye. But when seen on a tree, it looks un-natural, wrong even – and that’s because ...
When they say that a ‘leopard can’t change its spots’ they are not talking about the evolutionary process that lead to spots or the genetic make-up and pigmentation that created the spots that we see; they are just saying ‘it is what it is’. Trees are what they are too. Yes, you can twist and ...