Ginkgo nut trees!! There's a row of them in the local park, right behind the cherry-blossom trees where Maron found a snake the other day. Sometimes we'll see one of the old people from the neighboring public housing complex collect the nuts to prepare. The tree I've been chopping for firewood must have been like the big park trees three years ago. I guess the guy wanted more sun on his little garden plots or something. Or maybe someone was complaining about the fallen leaves. How did it come about about that people think they can complain about fallen leaves and then that they should be taken seriously and motivate the removal of trees. How?

"Everything's so twisted, you ain't never gonna fix it..." --- A3.

But seeing a little Ginkgo seedling can make one feel hopeful. Eventually I should get access to some land to reclaim, someplace where I can plant all hopeful seedling..Would be awesome to take over and abandoned quarry, build Earthsips there and surround them with forest.

"In Dreams Begins Responsibility" --- Yeats

but there are so many dreams... "The habit of living in fancies is normal and right in early childhood, because young children have an impotence which ,is not pathological. But as adult life approaches, there must be a more and more vivid realization that dreams are only valuable in so far as they can be translated, sooner or later, into fact." -- Bertrand Russel ^1

A few years ago some Ginkgo trees along the road were coppicced. They looked really sad at first. But a few weeks ago I noticed them again and the look really good, lots of height and leaves. These trees are fascinating, even if eating too many of their seeds (nuts?) is supposed to be bad for you: taste awesome in sushi restaurant ChaWanMushi though..

In #TheTree #ColinTudge mentions that these trees nearly went extinct 5,000 years ago. Temples in China preserved them?
- ^1 https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE16-070.HTM

#GinkgoTree #銀杏木 #銀杏 #稗田公園 #三股稗田公園 #銀杏木苗 #萌芽更新 #Coppicing

I love coppicing and other kinds of resprout agriculture. I'm on my second cycle of a willow and alder copse l. Someone said you could count a person's age in how many cycles they've gone through. It's easier to remember than the years for sure. #coppicing #resproutagriculture #pollarding #alder #alnus #willow #salix #biomass #carbonfarming #naturalgeoengineering