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Unfortunate News Story
Hi all,
From this morning's NYTs, an interview with Thomas Pakenham, author of "Meetings with Remarkable Trees"...
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NYTs: In the new book, you confess to a loathing for bonsai. What is so bad about bonsai?
TP: They give me the creeps. I never would want to be involved with a bonsai. Because they cut all the living material of the root except the youngest growth, in order to confine it to the prison of its pot. It's like binding Chinese women's feet. Natural bonsai can be quite moving. Sometimes you see them growing out of rocks on mountains and surviving in terribly hostile environments, and that is moving.
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What an unfortunate and harmful bit if ignorance to be expressed in a national publication. As Dr. Nina Shishkoff noted on the IBC this morning, outreach is needed!
Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
zone 8, Texas
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