They also wrote directly to the trees, which have received thousands of messages—everything from banal greetings and questions about current events to love letters and existential dilemmas.
“As I was leaving St. Mary’s College today I was struck, not by a branch, but by your radiant beauty.
Melbourne’s email-a-tree service is one in a litany of municipal projects aimed at leveraging personal and institutional technologies to keep cities running smoothly.
Y’all can call me Al. I’m about 350 years old and live on a small farm in N.E. Mississippi, USA.
“The email interactions reveal the love Melburnians have for our trees,” Wood said.
City officials shared several of the tree emails with me, but redacted the names of senders to respect their privacy.
The surprising thing in the case of email-equipped trees, though, is that some of the people who have sent messages have received replies. »
