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heptagrammaton
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On the romantic shift in perception surfacing with the early 19th century planting movement; trees as individuals, not of the communities of the wild:
" A known tree is a solid link with the past, an embodiment of continuity. [...] It could be appropriated as a trophy [...] When the idea of 'heritage' began to take on its shape characterful trees slippedfeasily into the mould, as a species of cultural property."
— Jul 19, 2024 03:34AM
" A known tree is a solid link with the past, an embodiment of continuity. [...] It could be appropriated as a trophy [...] When the idea of 'heritage' began to take on its shape characterful trees slippedfeasily into the mould, as a species of cultural property."
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heptagrammaton
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" Contrary to conventional forestry wisdom, great age and internal rottenness don't make trees vulnerable, but actively protect them. Most of the Windsor veterans [oak pollards] were squat and hollow, with small branch areas and low centres of gravity, which made them very stable in high winds."
— Jul 22, 2024 11:39PM
heptagrammaton
is on page 236 of 288
"Naturalness is whatever occurs between human interventions."
— Jul 22, 2024 11:34PM
heptagrammaton
is on page 156 of 288
"... the way trees exhibit and then respond to stress is entirely different from other living things. It's a protracted and permanent expression, frozen into the hard forms of wood."
biomechanical key-term: the axiom of uniform stress
— Jul 21, 2024 05:32PM
biomechanical key-term: the axiom of uniform stress
heptagrammaton
is on page 148 of 288
of beauty for the Picturesque mvt. & Uvedale Price's writings: "... [what he saw as natural beauty was] diversity, intricacy, accident, weathering, light and shade, fractal surface, decaying wood ... above all the connectivity of features in a natural landscape.." (Mabey's own emphasis)
[this being] "also a fair précis of the criteria by which scientists evaluate the ecological richness of natural systems."
— Jul 21, 2024 05:29PM
[this being] "also a fair précis of the criteria by which scientists evaluate the ecological richness of natural systems."
heptagrammaton
is on page 134 of 288
"The look of them [trees] becomes a register of their relations with each other, with rock and water, with weather and changing light."
— Jul 19, 2024 04:46AM
heptagrammaton
is on page 97 of 288
"The funda,emta; grammar of our relationship with trees changed. [...} In the forest-speak of the Enlightenment, 'growing' was a transitive verb. We were the subjects and trees the object. ..."
— Jul 08, 2024 07:54PM
