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People Are Writing Thousands of Emails to Trees
The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees.
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This is wonderful : ) I know that, in my town, people do really love certain trees. They will frequently carve initials into them though, and occasionally this damages them even though it really was done with good intentions. This is such a better way to express the affection, I'd love to see it happen in other cities as well!
Agreed This is truly amazing! I love it. What a great community the city has. I really want to write one.
This is really great! It's like a creative writing assignment gone wild: "Write a letter to a tree...what would you tell it? What would you ask it?"
Is there a way to share this with another tribe without reposting? I think the guys over in /t/melbourne would like to see this.
People have been writing to inanimate objects for a long time : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placing_notes_in_the_Western_Wall
tree's aren't inanimate though; they're living things.
but they can't physically move themselves
Hi, I recommend David Attenborough's "The Secret Life of Plants" . Plants and trees do move across the landscape- not as we or other animals do, but when you watch some of the time lapse sequences it becomes evident that they do move, just at a slower pace. It's fascinating.
Thank you. I did not know that. I will look it up tonight as it sounds very interesting
It is. When you watch the time lapse stuff it really seems like the main difference between us and plants in relation to moving around is just time.
We may be conflating "sessile" (living but fixed in location, opposite of "motile") with "inanimate" (not living material).
urm, yeah they do, plants turn towards the sun and twist and grow around things.
Regardless, the definition of "inanimate" is not movement as many inanimate objects can move but if they are alive or not.