We have a huge furore here about trees being cut to make way for a metro rail project. The political and electoral ramifications complicate the matter even further.
Environmentalists carefully uprooted a few trees instead of cutting them, and the same were planted in other places. Citizens have been asked to take the lush trees for their campus or home.
I wish somebody follows it up, and sees what happens to the trees, a few years down the line. I’ve heard that trees nurture each other with their underlying root network. They also talk to each other by bending their branches, and rustling of leaves. The belief is that the old offer advice to the young ones.
Will the uprooted trees survive? And how….?
trees in foreign soil
wither away despite care
they miss connections
Reena Saxena 
I wonder too… but maybe some trees are better than humans to adopt and find new friends.
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Hope so, for their sake. Thanks, Bjorn!
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I cry the same cry here as I seen land scraped down to the subsoil to build new developments. Hundred year old trees are removed to make way for growing populations. Well done Reena.
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Thank you, Dwight! It is a worldwide problem.
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Good observation to remind us that trees communicate with each other as well and they also miss connections.
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My gardener friends tell me their plants perk up, when they go near.
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I like your unique take on indigenous! Our disregard for the environment is another sad legacy!
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Thanks as always, Frank!
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This is the second entry I read with trees as theme. I wonder if we don’t realise the importance of regarding trees and all plants as equal to our lives? Thanks for the message.
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Most of us don’t realise it. Thanks for dropping by!
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Trees need lots off soil surrounding roots for connection. Great ideat to plant them in other places. Project is required to control traffic .
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They have done it in Delhi b4 the Delhi Metro project. Not sure how much is true and how much is hogwash to appease environmentalists. They’ve now devised a term – NGO mafia, as if politics was less than a mafia.
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Everything is under this or that kind of mafia. One can’t be sure of anything, especially in politics now.
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