Hello,
I'm sorry for intruding but I don't know where else I could possibly ask
the following question. I'm sure once having read the following sentence
(not necessarily literally): "No matter how small your garden is reserve
at least 1 acre for woodland". Does anybody know who said (wrote) that.
May I ask you to point to a corresponding reference?
Hope I didn't bother you too much.
Thanks in advance
Gotthelf

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:21:11 +0100, G Wolmershäuser wrote
(in article ):

Hello,
I'm sorry for intruding but I don't know where else I could possibly ask
the following question. I'm sure once having read the following sentence
(not necessarily literally): "No matter how small your garden is reserve
at least 1 acre for woodland". Does anybody know who said (wrote) that.
May I ask you to point to a corresponding reference?
Hope I didn't bother you too much.
Thanks in advance


I thought it sounded a bit like Gertrude Jekyll, but the nearest reference I
can find suggests advice believed to be offered by Lord Rothschild : "No
matter how small your garden is, you should aim to have a minimum of a
quarter of an acre of natural woodland in it."



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Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation
churchyard:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 G Wolmershäuser wrote:
Hello,
I'm sorry for intruding but I don't know where else I could possibly
ask the following question. I'm sure once having read the following
sentence (not necessarily literally): "No matter how small your garden
is reserve at least 1 acre for woodland". Does anybody know who said
(wrote) that. May I ask you to point to a corresponding reference?
Hope I didn't bother you too much.
Thanks in advance
Gotthelf

Lord Rothschild once said, "No matter how small your garden is, you
should aim to have a minimum of a quarter of an acre of natural woodland
in it." On another occasion he wrote, ".No matter how small your garden,
always leave a few acres down to wild woodland."

David

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David Rance http://www.mesnil.demon.co.uk
Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Caversham, Reading, UK

"G Wolmershäuser" wrote in message
...
Hello,
I'm sorry for intruding but I don't know where else I could possibly ask
the following question. I'm sure once having read the following sentence
(not necessarily literally): "No matter how small your garden is reserve
at least 1 acre for woodland". Does anybody know who said (wrote) that.
May I ask you to point to a corresponding reference?
Hope I didn't bother you too much.
Thanks in advance
Gotthelf

Somebody who has a lot more land than thee or me

David Rance schrieb:

Lord Rothschild once said, "No matter how small your garden is, you
should aim to have a minimum of a quarter of an acre of natural woodland
in it." On another occasion he wrote, ".No matter how small your garden,
always leave a few acres down to wild woodland."

Thank you very much indeed, Sally and David. Lionel de Rothschild sounds
very likely to be the originator. I wasn't aware of the size of "just" a
quarter of an acre. :-)
Again, many thanks
Gotthelf

Robert (Plymouth) schrieb:

Somebody who has a lot more land than thee or me

Your answer seems to be a circumlocution for Lionel de Rothschild :-)
Cheers
Gotthelf

On 7 Sep, 13:29, G Wolmershäuser wrote:
Robert (Plymouth) schrieb:
Somebody who has a lot more land than thee or me

Your answer seems to be a circumlocution for Lionel de Rothschild :-)

Nah. I think you'll find he's got 6'6" of land now, and no more.