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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You surely can understand that this is a culturally significant tree to many people? That's like if stone henge was knocked down and you said "rocks get knocked over every day"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a colossally dense take but it's also from the person who described us as the "most nature country"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I meant nature depleted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s like if stone henge was knocked down

It was. Just not recently.

It also looks like bits are still coming back these days:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stonehenge-missing-piece-england-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

Missing piece of Stonehenge monument returned after 60 years

“The last thing we ever expected was to get a call from someone in America telling us they had a piece of Stonehenge,” Heather Sebire, English Heritage’s curator for Stonehenge, said in a news release.