by kpeavey » Tue 16 Dec 2008, 16:44:28
It is not possible to walk barefoot in my driveway for all the acorns. You will die, we're talking graveyard dead there are so many acorns. If I had to live on acorns, I'd be fat and happy for years just on whats in the driveway and stuck around the windshield wipers. Had to shovel out the mailman.
I have water oaks, more of a weed than an oak tree.
Around 75 years ago the Eastern US was covered with American Chestnut trees. A blight came through which virtually wiped out the population. They are just now starting to make a comeback after decades of effort to repopulate the species. That a blight or disease could wipe out acorn production is not without precedent.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
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twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
-George Yeats