Comments on: I Speak for the Trees http://www.sustainablecityblog.com/2009/01/i-speak-for-the-trees/ A blog on cities, design, planning and sustainable development, featuring work by Jesse Fox and others. Fri, 21 May 2010 18:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Laura http://www.sustainablecityblog.com/2009/01/i-speak-for-the-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Laura Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:45:58 +0000 http://www.jessefoxblog.com/?p=895#comment-155 A highway is being expanded here, in Northern Virginia, and the first thing that happened was the destruction of hundreds of trees. It's so stark, the destruction. It makes me think about what must be happening in places like the Amazon where one day there is life, and the next there is only destruction. Just the other day I was telling my students about how Israel has planted so many new trees, I guess I could have said it's not necessarily in addition, but to replace. Oh well. A highway is being expanded here, in Northern Virginia, and the first thing that happened was the destruction of hundreds of trees. It’s so stark, the destruction. It makes me think about what must be happening in places like the Amazon where one day there is life, and the next there is only destruction.

Just the other day I was telling my students about how Israel has planted so many new trees, I guess I could have said it’s not necessarily in addition, but to replace. Oh well.

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