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The Trees
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There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream "Oppression!"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

-Rush

The neighbors on both sides of my house have cut down all the locust trees due to borer beatles. Mine are under attack. Shall I use hatchet, axe, or saw? Or gnaw?


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Anxiety is what you make it.

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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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My trees are literally bleeding to death. We have a destructive beetle here that is destroying our beautiful pines. Their blood (sap) glistens in the searing sun. There's not a damn thing I can do about it except try to give them enough water (too many trees, not enough hoses) and hope they can produce enough sap to drown the little fuckers.

I feel your pain.

A little voice in my head tries to tell me "this is the natural order of things. Natural selection; they are only feeding on the weakest trees and over the long term it is for the best" but I'm having a hard time buying into that right now.

S2b

ps -- great song btw. A Rush classic!

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Re: The Trees [Re: shaman2b]
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It sounds like you have the pine borer beetle and I have the locust borer beetle. Locusts are like karate trees, they bleed on the inside. Then the whole limb falls off from the holes the beetles bored.

I am usually not one to whack trees to the ground, but there are some good sized limbs over the house that look pretty dead...

It's more like natural selection speeded up when men chop them to the ground. Still, mine need some major trimming and perhaps I will go on full beetle death assault with a chemical attack...


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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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I simply love that song, haven't heard it in a long time. :grin:

As a kid, I used to read all about the different types of trees, and everything... I think white oaks where my favorite, and if I remember correctly, they were sort of limited in numbers...

Isn't there any treatment for the beetles? Woodpeckers, or something? :frown:

:earth: :sun: :headbang: :satansmoking:
Peace. :mushroom2:


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:redpanda:
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:

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Re: The Trees [Re: fireworks_god]
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try talking to the trees

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Re: The Trees [Re: fireworks_god]
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Sure Woodpeckers would work but all we have in my town are Peckerwoods... :crazy:

Sure there is a chemical poison for everything but I think it needs to be applied in late winter when the Beatles are sleeping in the ground.  They awaken in spring and climb up the tree on the way to inside.  Gotta kill em before they get inside.  After that it's too late.. :frown:


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Re: The Trees [Re: Schwammel]
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try talking to the trees

I did, but one of the branches snapped at me.


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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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Well, it sounds as though you are simply just going to have to buy some white oak and plant 'em when the other trees are dead...

:grin:

Also, I would have to imagine that napalm would be effective at eliminating the beetles. :lol: That or Yoko Ono....

:earth: :sun: :headbang: :satansmoking:
Peace. :mushroom2:


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:redpanda:
If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:

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Re: The Trees [Re: fireworks_god]
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These locusts are 50 feet tall and need to be about 25 feet tall.  Usually I hate topping a tree but given the death at the top and the limbs falling from being bored to death there is no choice.  That way there is still shade and less mess and the danger of real devastation if (when?) the whole tree were to topple over and crush my house is gone.  The good news is that locusts seem to like being topped and will fill out after their haircut.  A pine getting topped is not as happy...

Or I could hire Yoko... :shocked:


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Edited by LunarEclipse (06/04/06 08:55 AM)

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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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Quote:
(Lunar), are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is (Lunar) you mourn for.


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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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LunarEclipse said:
try talking to the trees

I did, but one of the branches snapped at me.


:grin:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: The Trees [Re: Veritas]
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I can take or leave that poem.

The problem stems from the changing of the name to (Lunar).

It creates a splintered poem.  :grin:

Actually that poem makes me think of that thick slab of leaves etc. on the floor of a wet undisturbed forest that would make some nice mulch...


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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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Well, splinters are appropriate, considering the title of this thread.  :grin:

I'm saying that trees die all the time, people die all the time, so why the fuss over a particular tree or a particular human?

(My answer: to deny that we will die.)

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Re: The Trees [Re: Veritas]
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My parents had an expensive tree planted in the backyard in memory of my departed sister and of course the tree died. At least they found out all of that batch had died from having the rootball cut too short. The Mennonites brought a new tree on horse carraige and the father had his young daughter help plant it.

So, my parents were rewarded by the sight of a young girl giving life to a tree in memory of their own young girl whose life was cut short so early. Seems kind of fitting and appropriate to the cycle of life and death.


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Re: The Trees [Re: LunarEclipse]
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Trees are fantastic, a true expression of a fractal. The trunk splitting into a branch, the branch dividing in twigs, that in the end divide each other. Take out the smallest twig, put it in the ground, and the fractal will go in negative, dispersing it's roots through the earth.

God sure got his trigonometry squared out in this planet of ours.  :thumbup:


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