![]() ![]() Something which strikes me about Italy and the landscape around here are the beautiful, mature trees flourishing in all of the little towns around here, as well as in Rome itself. I’ve been staying outside Rome, in Zagarolo for the last few weeks in a home with a big Umbrella Pine in the garden. Just browsing your website when I came across this blog. This is surely a case of political correctness gone amuck and hopefully, the advocates of this destruction will rethink their plan and simply let these trees exist. A tree should not need to be defended against political fanaticism, but apparently, such a thing is quite real, and sadly, all too common these days. Despite the hyperbolic nature of this post, I am quite sincere in what I say here. If it were not such a grotesque act, it would be absurd to contemplate. If someone had told me about this misguided campaign before now, I would not have believed that such a thing could ever be possible. ![]() ![]() Surely the architects of this arboreal destruction should rethink the wisdom of this plan and show some mercy to a tree that has only brought nothing but beauty and grace to the Italian landscape. William Butler Yeats has written, “The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity.” Certainly these words more than apply here. We beseech you to cease this mindless destruction. A tree cannot be evil but misguided fanatics who mistakenly wish to destroy it for no good reason certainly are. To penalize a tree for the crimes of a dead ideology is beyond rational behavior it would make as much sense to destroy all hammers and sickles simply because the Soviet Union has appropriated them to be used on its national flag. To destroy a not so obvious symbol of fascist ideology and simply let it exist and allow people to enjoy its beauty. Surely the advocates of this insanity should certainly rethink their misguided attempt To penalize these beautiful trees for something so irrational defies all logic and we cannot believe that any reason could ever be advanced that would justify this senseless destruction of such a beautiful object of nature. This is one of those times.Ĭertainly the average person has no idea of the sinister association of these trees largely because it would never occur to them to demonize an innocent bit of flora for the crimes of a bygone and dead political movement. There are times when political ideology runs amuck and induces people to do things which, under ordinary circumstances, they would never contemplate. My wife and I are currently vacationing in Italy and we have come to associate these lively trees with the beauty of the Italian landscape and we are both shocked to read about this senseless and completely irrational campaign to wipe these trees out. ![]()
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