the tree fell, and they heard it.
This week in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, a 223 year old, 25 metre high Purple Beech tree that was planted for Marie Antoinette, fell to its death due to what I will technically term crazy winds.
What makes me sad is that this beautiful tree will now just become paper pulp.
Just a thought, but why not craft this into something awesome -like some incredible furniture?
It just seems like such a waste. I wonder if this kind of timber is just un-useable for anything else?
I wonder……
Pic via the Brisbane times
January 30th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Aw, poor tree. It deserves a grander send-off than becoming copy paper.
January 30th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Last year a huge tree was killed to make way for a development. They released on the news that night that the tree had been around 250 years old. I was so angry and devastated at the news. Could they not understand that you can’t just get that back?
Other than that, I can’t read most Marie Antoinette articles because they’re so terribly inaccurate regarding her life and death.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Agreed. That would make a gorgeous table or a bed fit for a queen.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Amanda Hello & welcome! I am hoping that one day soon the ‘people’ are going to understand that old growth trees are just tooo important to fell or take for granted. Research is showing that old trees are super powers for sucking up pollution and nasties – so I have a little faith that that craziness will stop once they realize global warming is for real. -i hope!
January 31st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
if it become paper ,we can also draw some beautiful paintings, or something like that ,isn’t?
February 1st, 2009 at 2:15 am
Hi Mondiaroe and welcome! Good point, but my bets are on it just becoming copy paper.