On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:43:29 GMT, kwantenzap at xs4all.nl (CorK) wrote:
Iris,
Although the male Ginkgo is cultivated as for instance street tree the
female Ginkgo is much less cultivated and therefore rare and the
Ginkgo in Ashland is female....
Up till now the City of Ashland has not take any action to try to
save the monumental 100 years old Ginkgo that is one of the few old
and female Ginkgos in the USA and deserves our respect and protection.
It is also a native tree looking at the fossil record in the western
part of the US.
Each community should have respect for history and nature. Trees are
living memorials and a natural resource.
All that is needed to destroy them is a combination of ignorance and a
chain saw.
'The redwood lady' Julia Butterfly wrote this poem on Nov.26 this year
(from which I cite) when she had heard HER tree had been attacked:
"See . . .
what we do to the Earth
we do to each other.
And how we treat the Earth
is reflected in how we treat each other.
The pain I feel right now that threatens to rip me apart
is the pain I feel every time I see an Ancient Elder cut . . .
the pain I feel every time another species goes extinct . . .
the pain I feel every time someone yells at a child . . ."
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CorK