by Mark Roberts | Jan 9, 2017 | Trees
The Redwoods of Rotorua in New Zealand are arguably the most substantial and therefore the most important stand of Redwood trees outside of those on the Pacific coast of North America. Visit them you must, look but don’t touch. Over three and a half million people...
by Mark Roberts | Dec 19, 2016 | Trees
Star Wars has microscopic, intelligent lifeforms called midi-chlorians that live within the cells of all living beings. That’s science-fiction. Apparently, midi-chlorians influence the ‘force’, which is all important to the Star Wars story. Plants, on the other hand...
by Mark Roberts | Nov 24, 2016 | Trees
A quick Google search will tell you that an ’act of God’ is an event outside human control, an event where no one can be held responsible. It’s an old-school term with legal status. I agree that people should not be held responsible for unforeseeable natural...
by Mark Roberts | Nov 9, 2016 | Trees
Recently I gave a presentation at the New Zealand Arboricultural Association conference, I pointed out that stress is an external force or an emotional condition, and that it is incorrect to say a tree is ‘stressed’ when not talking about external forces. Trees don’t...
by Mark Roberts | Oct 17, 2016 | Trees
There is a quote that goes something like, ‘You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed’. It comes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery children’s book Le Petit Prince. I’ve not read the book but the quote conjures up a someone wanting a creature and through...
