The Cabbage Leaf Looks at Trees

Last week, my friends from Botany and Other Stories came round to deliver the latest issue of The Cabbage Leaf, the newsletter/magazine about nature that they produce (we were careful to stay 2m apart!).
This time, there was an extra note attached:
"When this issue of the Cabbage Leaf went to print, the global coronavirus pandemic had already hit Great Britain.
This state of emergency is leading to unprecedented changes to daily life in uncharted territories.
Still we will not forget that, more than ever, many other issues still matter, the climate crisis being one of them.
Best wishes to everyone during these unsettling and challenging times."

The theme of the Spring issue is trees, and the letter 'R', standing for Reforestation and Rewilding and Richard Booth. There's an interview with local scientist Emily Warner, who is studying for a PhD at Oxford, studying the benefits of reforestation. She also writes for Little Toller Books, a small publisher specialising in books about rural life and local history, where "Seeking the trees: a rewilding diary" can be found in their online journal The Clearing.
There's an article about the Golden Spruce, a tree sacred to the Haida Indians in British Columbia, which was chopped down in 1997.
There are statistics about trees - such as the number of trees cut down every year to make virgin paper for the production of books in the US (30 million!).
There's also an article about Tree Preservation Orders, mentioning four of the five trees by the Old Library and the pollarded lime trees on Broad Street.
Borja Montego Moraga, who lives in Clyro, has contributed an article for the Plant of My Land column - on Spanish olive trees.
And the Children's Corner on the back page talks about the Tree of Jesse in Abergavenny church.
The 'R for Richard Booth' part of the publication is a separate 8 page supplement, collecting many quotations about and by the King of Hay, including a poem by Chris the Bookbinder, who edits Quirk poetry magazine. I think my favourite quotation from Richard in the booklet is on the front page, where he's talking about all the books published about Princess Diana, and finishes:
"One starts life by thinking civilisation is turning trees into books and finishes it by thinking that a tree is better as a tree."