Browsing: environment

I think this kind of imagination is important. It is incredibly humbling to be forced to reckon with the immensely long history of life-on-earth in the places where you can see its traces. It’s a sobering reminder of the fragility of life on earth; an in-your-face warning that extinction not only can happen, but is eventually inevitable.

While I sympathise with SST’s anti-development line, I cannot believe that the solution to conserving Sydney’s trees can be achieved by a simple change of government. What is required is a celebration of trees for their intrinsic value, their character, their sense of place. It is in these famous trees that we find places. There is nothing delicate in a belief like that.

Trees are all around us… and they are always listening. But they’re not nosy like your next-door neighbour, so you don’t need to worry about them prying into your nonexistent love life and crippling job prospects.