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Comment on BBC News - Sycamore Gap: Man in his 60s held after Hadrian's Wall tree cut down

peter@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

You surely can understand that this is a culturally significant tree to many people? That’s like if stone henge was knocked down and you said “rocks get knocked over every day”

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tal@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

That’s like if stone henge was knocked down

I mean, it was.

In fact, it looks like bits are still coming back these days:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stonehenge-missing-piece-england-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

Missing piece of Stonehenge monument returned after 60 years

“The last thing we ever expected was to get a call from someone in America telling us they had a piece of Stonehenge,” Heather Sebire, English Heritage’s curator for Stonehenge, said in a news release.

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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
It’s a colossally dense take but it’s also from the person who described us as the “most nature country”

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- guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Sorry, I meant nature depleted
  
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