Shades of meaning

Most of us care more than we realise about trees. I believe the outpouring of grief for the Sycamore Gap tree has shown this. Its mindless felling was just the most high-profile of many recent cases i

I am 15 years old when I meet my special friend. I leave my concrete suburb, overflowing with a rage that longs to be soothed, but I don’t know how. My bike is my outlet, my escape route, and I ride t

IT was inevitable that he was going to be fascinated by trees, for he was born ‘Paul Wood’ and grew up in a house in Dover that backed on to a forest. But no one could have predicted the lengths that

The public outcry that swept the nation after the mindless destruction of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree that had stood for 150 years in a dramatic dip of Hadrian’s Wall showed just how much we ca

Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle

Shoots of recovery for our ash trees ( ...