crypto-forestry
in new plymouth, aotearoa/new zealand - a stand of tall, tall redwoods (presumably Sequoia sempervirens) about as far away from their native habitat as possible...
a plaque amongst the trees reads :
"Sir Victor C Davies 1887-1977
If you seek his monument, look around."
'a compelling confluence of humus, hubris and irony, given the extinction of characteristic forests of the similarly ancient and monumental kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - predominantly felled for the export of butter to england in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - as explained by the late Geoff Park in his remarkable book Nga Uruora - Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape (Victoria University Press 1995)...
crypto-forestry
in new plymouth, aotearoa/new zealand - a stand of tall, tall redwoods (presumably Sequoia sempervirens) about as far away from their native habitat as possible...
a plaque amongst the trees reads :
"Sir Victor C Davies 1887-1977
If you seek his monument, look around."
'a compelling confluence of humus, hubris and irony, given the extinction of characteristic forests of the similarly ancient and monumental kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - predominantly felled for the export of butter to england in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - as explained by the late Geoff Park in his remarkable book Nga Uruora - Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape (Victoria University Press 1995)...