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since time memorial man has had a relationship with woodlands. Foraging, fornicating, shelter, coppicing, good, evil etc etc. This relationship is still with us and for good or for worse mans continuing presence is often left as traces.

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I like this thread. People have often carved their love tokens into trees, perhaps because they see the tree as everlasting and they hope their love will be the same.

 

I have a very unusual sycamore that has loads of these tokens going back to the 70's, I won't cut it even though it is a pain to kill all the seedlings from it.

 

I also have a large Sweet Chestnut, carved with a huge heart by a previous forester with a chainsaw. It meant something to him, or he wouldn't have made the effort. The tree is slowly covering it up.

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What this thread needs is an african cousin to post an image of an ancient Boab, a tree that is as much a part of its human comunity today as it was a thousand years ago.

 

A sacred hollow Boab will have seen generation upon generation of man born within its hollow hulk as the local tribeswomen go there when entering labour.

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What this thread needs is an african cousin to post an image of an ancient Boab, a tree that is as much a part of its human comunity today as it was a thousand years ago.

 

A sacred hollow Boab will have seen generation upon generation of man born within its hollow hulk as the local tribeswomen go there when entering labour.

 

 

My Wife was out in The Gambia last year with a charity and took loads of Baobab photos for me unfortunately they're on her laptop at the mo' so I can't post them here (yet). She photo-documented the following event though.

 

They ran out of glue during a classroom project with the kids and were scratching their heads as to what to do when one of the kids says his Grandfather showed him once how to make glue from Baobab fruit.

 

The class empties outside and the kids are straight up the trees (no ropes and no worries from the teachers), down come the fruit and this kid shows everybody what Grandad (and more importantly GENERATIONS of his people) used to do.

 

The glue is made, the project finished and an important skill passed on - result!

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A walk through Donkey Wood in Hounslow......served by the River Crane this wood contained gunpowder mills.

 

The mounds were to protect from explosions from the mixing sheds apparently. There are still remnants of the mills dotted throughout the wood.

 

A few traces of man's continuing presence within or woodlands.

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