• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      In the picture there sure is a lot of area around the tree… But hey, if they have a hard on to cut down old significant trees, who’s to stop them.

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        10 months ago

        Significant because of its age? Sure. Significant because of its tenuous ties to Darwin? Someone named it Darwin’s Oak a couple years ago to gather public sympathy against the project. You could argue against any development in the area because “Darwin may have walked on these grounds and threw rocks in this stream as a child”.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah I’m all for keeping old trees like this one but that’s because old trees are good in and of themselves. I care less about Darwin possibly having climbed it 200 years ago and more about little boys and girls climbing it 200 years from now. Nobody will be driving on that bypass in 200 years but I do hope that children will still be climbing trees like this one.

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        10 months ago

        The reason behind building around the farm seems to be something quite practical:

        “The myth was somewhat debunked last year when a recently unearthed documentary revealed that a geological fault, rather than an awkward farmer, was the real reason for Stott Hall, which lies west of Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, being left in that peculiar location.”