Police investigating after former tree of the year winner, estimated to be several hundred years old, felled
  • TheYang@lemmy.world
    1141·
    1 year ago

    Can someone explain why it’s so terrible, that this tree has been felled?
    I don’t think I’ve seen it before, so to me it’s more significant that it fell on Hadrian’s wall. But I do seem to be ignorant here, so can someone educate me?

    • Kalkaline @leminal.space
      39·
      1 year ago

      It was hundreds of years old and people liked the tree enough that it was featured in photographs and film. It’s not terribly complicated.

    • Bluefold@sh.itjust.works
      30·
      1 year ago

      To many in the region, it was more than just a tree. It was where they proposed, it was where they went to find calm during a tough period, it was where they said their final goodbyes to a loved one etc. To say the tree was iconic would be an understatement. It was a constant in a time of change and a place of undeniable beauty in a world of increasing shit. The kinda place you make a special trip out to once your kids are old enough and show them a part of their local identity, untouched by the passing of time.

      At the end of the day, yes it is just a tree. But it is also a many missed memories being made and just one more destruction of something just a little special. It’s no surprise people were speculating that some landowner or farmer was refused planning permission after it first happened. Because that is what we’re used to, someone selfish taking away something that was just there because it was beautiful.

      • andrewta@lemmy.world
        23·
        1 year ago

        He’s literally asking for knowledge. And your take is to ask him if something is only significant if he’s seen it?

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      At a minimum, it was owned by the national trust, so in no way was it his tree to cut down.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      Not sure why you are being down voted. You are asking for knowledge. Others have provided decent answers though. Again not sure why you are being down voted.

      • TheYang@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        Well, I assume some people understood me as asking “It’s just a tree, why the bother?”. I tried to get around this with wording, but whatever.

        I kinda guess this is largely a “local” thing (not sure how large “local” is though). And of course it’s a pity that an angry teen destroyed a hundreds of years old tree.