This London plane may have
lost its sense of direction and fetched up in the wrong city but it is at least
a city tree, and we are in the heart of the city here. Its rubbery leaves repel
urban grime and pollution, and it is tough enough to flourish even in
paved-over soil. Our London plane looks solid, stoical, happy for us to live
alongside it, perhaps a little irritated by our noisy egotism but far too
polite to mention it. In his book The
Perfumier and the Stinkhorn, Richard Mabey argues that our relationship
with trees is a model for how we should relate to the natural world as a whole,
a relationship based on neighbourliness and undemanding reciprocity rather than
ownership or coercion. The way we breathe the
exhalations of trees, without either the trees or us being aware of it, is, he
suggests, ‘a true unconscious communion’.
A lot of
the other trees are limes, with great nests of leaves snaking round their trunks.
I think I may pass on Mabey's suggestion, in his book Flora Britannica, that the young leaves of limes 'make refreshing
sandwich fillings'. But it's nice being around the solid trunks
of trees while undergoing the self-absorbing and nerve-shredding experience of
having a new book out - which may, involve, at any point, someone saying that it
wasn't worth pulping all those trees so they could have it in their hands. Or
they may just ignore it, which is saying the same thing in a kinder, but
somehow crueller, way. But I think I’m going to enjoy being around trees, and am
looking forward to autumn.
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