the countryside that folk admire from their car windows is not really very “natural” - lots of brambles and tangled woods is probably closer to the default state, onto which we have added animals, hedgerows roads and so forth, but also allowed other species to thrive in many cases.
The correct question, and I have no answer, is how to work with and direct nature in a way that is not self destructive. That may well involve more trees, but they do need to be the right sort and in the right places, if not they are just as unwelcome as big weeds.
the countryside that folk admire from their car windows is not really very “natural” - lots of brambles and tangled woods is probably closer to the default state, onto which we have added animals, hedgerows roads and so forth, but also allowed other species to thrive in many cases.
The correct question, and I have no answer, is how to work with and direct nature in a way that is not self destructive. That may well involve more trees, but they do need to be the right sort and in the right places, if not they are just as unwelcome as big weeds.
