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The introduction links the viral event to personal memory of the tree’s landmark location, its fame through film and later “Tree of the Year” recognition, and the public grief that followed. It questions why some trees become beloved icons while others are lost with far less attention, framing nature as shaped by human connections and values.","By the same author  \nMoods of Future Joys Thunder and Sunshine Ten Lessons from the Road There Are Other Rivers My Midsummer Morning Microadventures Grand Adventures The Doorstep Mile Ask an Adventurer Local  \nFor Children  \nThe Boy Who Biked the World The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean Great Adventurers Against the Odds Canoe Challenge  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n‘This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.’  \n—Gilead, Marilynne Robinson  \n‘Look, I want to love this world as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get  \nto be alive and know it.’  \n—‘October’, Mary Oliver  \n‘I had the best life offered up by this blue marble Or any alien world And no, I shan’t complain  \nIf the lasting memory of me is the sign of a new life budding In the leaves ofthe elm trees No, I shan’t complain I had the best time.’  \n—‘Blue Marbled Elm Trees’, King Creosote  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction  \nPart 1: The Great Disconnection  \nPart 2: Fifteen Minutes of Nature  \nPart 3: The Great Reconnection  \nEpilogue  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nAcknowledgements  \nAbout The Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nINTRODUCTION  \nIn September 2023, as Storm Agnes hurled wind and rain across northern England, two men set out on a stealthy night mission. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers had decided it would be a bit of a laugh to chop down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall. The friends parked their Range Rover and approached the tree on foot under the cover of darkness. It was past midnight when one of them wielded a chainsaw while the other filmed the stunt.  \nThree minutes of skilful work undid a century and a half of tree. All those gales endured, all that rainwater drawn up through those deep roots in the landscape, all those spring blooms of tens of thousands of fresh leaves, all those yearly rings of fresh wood as life went on and on, as it always had. The wind roared, the saw screamed, the tree groaned, and with a sharp crack the sycamore crashed to the ground.  \nThe pals cheered, took a wedge from the trunk as a trophy and then drove away in delight, congratulating each other on having ‘launched an operation’ like that. During the journey home, Carruthers’ partner sent him a video of their five-day-old baby feeding, but he trumped her message with‘I’ve got a better video than that.’  \nAt daybreak, the two fellows woke to infamy as news of the tree’s demise began to spread. Who were the fellers, and why had they done it? Graham and Carruthers pinged gleeful messages back and forth as the story unfolded – at first locally, but soon as far afield as the New York Times.  \n‘I think it’s going to go wild!’‘It’s gone viral, it’s worldwide!’  \nWhen I was about twelve years old, I had hiked along Hadrian’s Wall on a school trip. I remember how exciting it felt to walk alongside an actual Roman fortification, as it marched along the edge of a rocky outcrop, cutting across the windswept moorland.  \nThe most memorable spot was where the clifftop wall dipped through aneat nook in the landscape, and there in the gap was a big tree. The sycamore stood out because it was the only tree around. From here you could see across miles of empty countryside, which I imagined had not changed much since Roman soldiers stood shivering as the wet wind blew over the heather. It was an ideal place for a gaggle of schoolchildren to mess about while we ate our packed lunches.  \nI describe this scene knowing it might actually be a fudgedtogether memory stitched from the 1991 Robin Hood movie (which I loved), with its accompanying Bryan Adams song (also a big fan) which hung around at number one in the charts for almost as long as the tree had been there. This Hollywood appearance had made the Sycamore Gap tree famous worldwide, not just to hikers and kids on school trips. Indeed, it even reached the dizzying heights of being crowned England’s Tree of the Year in 2016.  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