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Fun facts: the UK has crazy laws protecting trees and hedgerows. There's a national tree registry for old boys.

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[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 45 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The trees owned the lands until the humans took it from them.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago
[–] einlander@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?

-Tuck Everlasting

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

Dude’s lived how ever many hundred years and never even heard of mineral rights, smh.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well, at least in my country, only what's above the ground.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, more like rented their place until they could give back to the earth with the ultimate sacrifice.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t that what we all do though?

[–] MelodiousFunk 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Humans are bizarrely fond of stuffing their dead with preservatives, hermetically sealing them in a box, and/or incinerating them. Like, it's our last chance to give a little bit back to nature, but nope.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That just delays things ultimately

[–] Natanael 4 points 6 months ago

With all the crap we put in ourselves it's a good thing we slow down that process, like the casing of a slow action pill

[–] SnipingNinja 2 points 6 months ago

How's incinerating bad? Unless you're keeping the leftovers I guess