[Gravityloss]

I've visited a park here that has living trees that were planted by a wealthy retired officer, to be sail ship masts. Now would be about harvesting time, some 100 years later. It's a nice place though.

I applaud their efforts. Seems it's just impossible to let the environment be. First everything absolutely just must be destroyed, and then, years later, somebody must spend a lot of effort and time to actually try to make it "nice" again, and they won't see the results in their lifetime anyway.

[matt4077]

"A healthy society is one where old men plant trees they'll never eat from".

[gadders]

A similar (probably apocryphal) anecdote about an Oxford University college: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-beams-new-college-oxf...

[snovv_crash]

"Pears for the heirs"