Do You Trust The Trees ?

[Alistair]

There’s a landmark tree in the field next to my childhood home. It’s supposed to be over three hundred years old and was used as a landmark for the town. The last time I took a walk over to it with my mom’s dog there was a fox den under it.

 

[ShadowCat]

In all honesty I'm not one for nature, I won't go hiking in the forest, or sit in grass, it's just not for me!

 

[Cormac135]

What can I say?

We have planted about 70,000 of them and have used a number of them when they fell for heating.

I would trust them with my life. Literally.

The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire in the 1950s.

Legend has it that Robin Hood and his men used it for storage. I remember as a child you could go inside the tree. It is very different now. To help preserve it, a fence has been erected around it, and you can only look at the tree from a distance.

The tree is outside the village of Edwinstowe (meaning King Edwin’s Palace). Legend also says that the church at Edwinstowe is where Robin married Maid Marion. However, as no mention of a Maid Marion is made in writings until the Elizabethan, some historian believe she was invented by the Elizabethans to give the legend a love plot.

First mention of Robin comes from Langland’s Piers Plowman of 1377. Alison Weir in her book about King Edward II, says it is recorded in the financial rolls what amounts of money the gay king paid his servants, and it is believed some of the men mentioned in the rolls could be men who sold themselves for sex, which was not unheard of, even in the 14th century, and one man who frequently appears in the 1320s was called Robin Hood,

There’s a landmark tree in the field next to my childhood home. It’s supposed to be over three hundred years old and was used as a landmark for the town. The last time I took a walk over to it with my mom’s dog there was a fox den under it.

Okay guys can we at least take the threat seriously and not turn this thread into A Prairie Home Companion.

In all honesty I'm not one for nature, I won't go hiking in the forest, or sit in grass, it's just not for me!

Never trust the grass either.

 

[Alistair]

Okay guys can we at least take the threat seriously and not turn this thread into A Prairie Home Companion.

No we’re just telling you how long the aliens have been here.

 

[HoodedRat]

Okay guys can we at least take the threat seriously

I'm taking this threat very seriously.

 

[HomoLimpus]

Yes I trust the trees; they are the only life form outside my non-existent bubble that I can hug right now, plus, they make good listeners and don't reveal my darkest secrets to others.

 

[PrinceCory]

I know it might sound a bit nutty and flat Earth-ish gibberish but seriously, DO YOU TRUST THE TREES ?

From little samplings to the giant redwoods, isn't there just the inkling in your brain that they might be aliens in disguise, hiding away from us slowly stealing the Earth's resources.

Nooooooooooo.

But Baby Root is so cute!

 

[medic1]

Trees, just another name for those damn Triffids...............

 

[Pierresro]

This is kust plain silly!

 

[Cormac135]

This is kust plain silly!

You should take some time to really look at the root of this problem, you'll be shocked and horrified at what you'll discover.