There is a lovely short story which imagines a distant world, where the Diamondwood Forest – from the trees, ground flora, to the decomposers (the clean-up squad) – is in fact one interconnected supra-organism whose controlling being is large turtle-like creature. The Forest realises that the only way of stopping humans wrecking the system is… Continue reading Balanced Ecology
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April Showers
The horrible wet start to the year starts to fade from the memory, as, in the Thames Valley at least, the spectre of another spring drought emerges. Would this roller-coaster in our water supplies be very different if more of the country was under trees? There is a widespread belief that forest cover, at large… Continue reading April Showers
The Old Man of Wytham 