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‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Significant because of its age? Sure. Significant because of its tenuous ties to Darwin? Someone named it Darwin's Oak a couple years ago to gather public sympathy against the project. You could argue against any development in the area because "Darwin may have walked on these grounds and threw rocks in this stream as a child".

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I'm all for keeping old trees like this one but that's because old trees are good in and of themselves. I care less about Darwin possibly having climbed it 200 years ago and more about little boys and girls climbing it 200 years from now. Nobody will be driving on that bypass in 200 years but I do hope that children will still be climbing trees like this one.

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