Jay Griffiths on the ecology of connection
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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I Hate That Part of Themselves
I had a gardener come to my house last week to prune my green gauge tree, which has grown so out of control over the summer. I wanted someone to do it properly rather than me hacking at it. As he was doing that, he trimmed back my neighbours' beautiful ash tree a little that hangs over Hangsau Garden. He saw the first signs of ash die back in it and he said he'd tapped its roots and they were hollow already. And I felt this incredible wave of grief come over me, not just for that tree, for all the beautiful trees that shade our gardens,. which were all passing this terrible disease from one to another. And we'll lose them
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