Tree Huggers From the Future
On a recent walk in my favourite area of woodland, I came across a group of time travelling eco tourists appearing one by one from a brilliantly bright space suspended over a small pond. I was initially hesitant to approach these mysterious figures, however as I cowered behind the trunk of a mid sized Alder, one of them spoke to me directly
“Chronology protection conjecture” they said, I had no idea what it meant.
“Don’t fear us” they added.
Slowly I stepped forward into their brilliant, fabulously multicoloured light, they told me they had been expecting me and were already big fans of the work I hadn’t yet shot. They scanned me, told me we were distantly related, and I knew I was safe.
I spent several days I documenting their work. Always meticulous, occasionally sombre, (after all, not one of them had seen a tree before) and occasionally playful for the very same reasons. No matter how serious the subject, one must always find time for humour, they reminded me.
I asked many questions about the future, their answers remained vague on detail, apparently this was important for the preservation of causality, however they told me they were willing to risk all to save the trees, explaining how each and every tree was a magnificent display of life, played out slowly over the span of several human lifetimes, that we, for so many generations, had taken for granted.
“I’ll leaf you to it” I said. After all, one must always find time for humour.
