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Country diary: A tree can define a landscape – even when it has fallen | Paul Evans

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Country diary: A tree can define a landscape – even when it has fallen | Paul Evans
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The Marches, Shropshire: Recently I had wondered how long this great lime would stay standing. The next day, I had my answerHow quickly something that defines a landscape for centuries becomes the absence that redefines it – so it is with ancient trees. The trunk snapped like a carrot at the roots and crashed, its bony branches splintered. Now it lies like a shipwreck stranded in an open field, its hulk of twigs an animal pelt stilled.A day before, looking at its 300-year-old architecture of mos

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