Comments on: Trees http://www.rowyn.com/2006/02/trees/ Down the Rabbit Hole Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 2_ragged_claws http://www.rowyn.com/2006/02/trees/comment-page-1/#comment-385 2_ragged_claws Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:53:20 +0000 http://www.rowyn.com/blog/2006/02/70/#comment-385 The farce that passes for landscaping here appears to be some bureaucrat's idea of orderly, pseudo-pastoral beauty by beating and pummeling the land into submission. "Inconvenient" trees are removed, pesticides and herbicides are used liberally (the blue spray you may see here and there right now is herbicide). They do not appreciate that nature is most beautiful wild and free. They also try to kill the gophers. The bastards. I despise them. If I were less apathetic, I would start a protest. The farce that passes for landscaping here appears to be some bureaucrat’s idea of orderly, pseudo-pastoral beauty by beating and pummeling the land into submission. “Inconvenient” trees are removed, pesticides and herbicides are used liberally (the blue spray you may see here and there right now is herbicide). They do not appreciate that nature is most beautiful wild and free.

They also try to kill the gophers. The bastards. I despise them. If I were less apathetic, I would start a protest.

]]> By: the_zedster http://www.rowyn.com/2006/02/trees/comment-page-1/#comment-384 the_zedster Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:06:06 +0000 http://www.rowyn.com/blog/2006/02/70/#comment-384 No, are you serious?! What the heck is Stanford's problem? That makes me so mad--they keep killing perfectly good trees. Just today I saw the tree in front of my dorm hacked to bits--there were bits of the tree <i>actually</i> scattered all over the ground and stairway. Last year they cut another really nice tree I used to like to ride past, behind Tressider and the Faculty club. Know what they did afterwards? Plant the exact type of tree in its place, just a few years younger. Another 20 years from now, they'll hack that one to bits and plant yet another tree. And repeat the sick cycle >:{ No, are you serious?! What the heck is Stanford’s problem? That makes me so mad–they keep killing perfectly good trees. Just today I saw the tree in front of my dorm hacked to bits–there were bits of the tree actually scattered all over the ground and stairway. Last year they cut another really nice tree I used to like to ride past, behind Tressider and the Faculty club. Know what they did afterwards? Plant the exact type of tree in its place, just a few years younger. Another 20 years from now, they’ll hack that one to bits and plant yet another tree. And repeat the sick cycle >:{

]]> By: pandoradeloeste http://www.rowyn.com/2006/02/trees/comment-page-1/#comment-383 pandoradeloeste Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:58:17 +0000 http://www.rowyn.com/blog/2006/02/70/#comment-383 I remember that movie. Emilio and I could quote chapter and verse of it at one point. Aaron will be very sad that trees were cut down. If they were olive trees, I'll be <i>really</i> sad. Those things take about 50 years to produce fruit, and the ones by Vaden were definitely producing fruit last I checked. I remember that movie. Emilio and I could quote chapter and verse of it at one point. Aaron will be very sad that trees were cut down. If they were olive trees, I’ll be really sad. Those things take about 50 years to produce fruit, and the ones by Vaden were definitely producing fruit last I checked.

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