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Re: I like trees but

Subject: Re: I like trees but
From: Adam Hollis
Date: Jan 21 2008 09:11:34 

On 20 Jan 2008, at 21:26, uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info wrote:



Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:02:56 -0000
From: "John Flannigan" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: RE: I like trees but
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The Kaplans (if you are unaware of these Google R Kaplan and S
Kaplan, or
The Experience of Nature - these two have done more than most to
improve our
understanding of human/vegetation interaction) have described how
peoples' 
relationship with their environment is interactive and perception is
determined by a range of personal and environmental factors
described by in 
terms of 'compatibility'-
"Compatibility is established by an environment that is conducive
to meeting
your personal goals; that is, in a compatible environment, what you
want to 
do and are inclined to attempt are needed and feasible".


John




Hi John
Yet another John - Steinbeck, wrote enthusiastically on this subject
in his fiction, with regard to working the land in all its heavens
and hells. Following on from the work of contemporary
anthropologists, like Fraser and Campbell, he spoke of man and
environment as an irreducible unit, though like them, he did verge a
little to the mystical in his youth.
In To a God Unknown, which should be compulsory reading for all
arborists, because it involves the unconscious worship of an oak
tree, he described the complexities of compatibility with this
whimsical exchange between the hero and a cattle driver, on settling
the new homestead: 

He pointed a finger. "Over by that big oak, we'll drop this lumber."
To the face of the driver there came an expression of half-
foreboding. "Going to build under a tree? That's not good. One of
those limbs might crack off and take your roof with it, and smash
you, too, some night while you're asleep."
"It's a good strong tree," Joseph assured him. "I wouldn't like to
build my house very far from a tree. Is you're house away from a tree?"
"Well no, that's why I'm telling you. The damn thing is right smack
under one. I don't know how I happened to build it there." 



Regards

Adam


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