Druret ne mes imagjinates e realitetit

Perktheu Haki Kola

Druret n kt bot do t duhej tu prshtateshin puneve te shoqris njerzore. Ata duhet rriten krejt
afer njeri tjetrit n pyje, do dru duke formuar mundesisht nj trung t vetm te drejt cilindrik
siguruar nga nj Zot i mshirshm pr tregtin e drurit ne veriun Evropian: modifikimi gjenetik mund ti
kishte nxitur ato t rriteshin edhe me trup katerkendor. Ata drure do t vdesin kur t pritenr, dhe vendi
ku ata u rriten do t kthehet n hapesire jo-pyll. Njerzimi do t mbjell perseri dru si pasardhs pr t
krijuar nj pyll t ri edhe m t mir (e pare nga standardet e njeriut) sesa ai origjinal. Nje bot e
imagjinuar ne forme te tille doli nga prirja te shkenctarve dhe dijetarve t Iluminizmit n shekullin e
tetmbdhjet. Ajo e pushtoi imagjinatn e qeverive t shekullit t nntmbdhjet, t cilt krkonin
t bjn si te tyret druret (po edhe popullin i tyre) qe jetonin n ket bot. Shkencetaret dhe pylltaret e
mods s vjetr, dhe shum q shkruajn libra per druret, ende jetojn n nj bot t till. Nse besoni
n shumsin e botve, mund t ket, yje te larget qe vertiten rreth orbites, ne nj bot me njerz t
gjelber dhe drure te trndafilt qe mund te silleshin n kt mnyr (sic e kerkon kjo imagjinate). Por n
botn e vrtet t Toks, druret jan po ashtu si kafsht t egra, si psh dreret apo agulicet jan pjese
e asaj qe e quajm jete e eger (Wildlife). do specie ka agjendn e vet dhe ndrveprimet e veta me
aktivitetet njerezore. Nese te gjithe druret do te ishin ashtu si ato ideale, ata do te kishin humbur pjesen
me te madhe te rendesise e kuptimit te tyre, gjithe kuptimin e tyre historic, shumicen e bukurise se tyre,
dhe shumicen e vlerave te tyre si vendbanim (habitat)

Rackham, Oliver (2010-08-19). Woodlands HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Trees between imagination and reality
Trees in this world would fit into the affairs of human society. They would grow close together in forests,
each tree forming just one straight cylindrical trunk provided by a beneficent Providence for the north
European timber trade: genetic modification might even induce them to grow square trunks.* They
would die when cut down, and the land they grew on would turn into non-forest. Humanity would plant
successor trees to create a new forest even better (by human standards) than the original. This world
sprang from the imagination of the scientists and savants of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth
century. It captured the imagination of nineteenth-century governments, who sought to make their
trees (and their people) live in that world. Old-fashioned foresters and scientists, and many who write
books on trees, still live in such a world. If you believe in a plurality of worlds, there may be, orbiting
some far-off star, a world with green men and pink trees behaving thus. But in the real world of Earth,
trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own
interactions with human activities. If all trees were like the ideal, they would lose most of their
significance, all their historic meaning, most of their beauty, and most of their value as a habitat.

Rackham, Oliver (2010-08-19). Woodlands (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 100) (Kindle Locations
177-178). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.