In "Ahnen", the cast cavort and cry through a mini-forest of cacti.Bausch's exceptionally loose, surreal take on dance won her myriad fans, including her fellow German, Wim Wenders, who began making what became a famous film about her in 2009 just as she unexpectedly died.
Environmentalists have long complained that GDP treats the despoliation of the planet as a plus (via the resulting economic output) rather than a minus (forests destroyed).In recent years economists have therefore been looking at other measures of well-being even "happiness", a notion that it once seemed absurd to quantify.
The new John Lewis seasonal ad campaign, which has become a landmark media event in recent years, takes in television, social media, soft toys, in-store events and even a mini manmade forest on the banks of the Thames.
You can also combine all three to create your own mini forest.
One is transparent, housing a mini-rain forest around which a metal ramp winds upward, leading out of the heavy undergrowth into a realm where birds and butterflies fly freely.
The world may be, too.According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), a UN body, the net change in the world's forested land (deforestation minus forest expansion) was 52,000 sq km a year in the 2000s a huge loss, but almost two-fifths below what it had been in the 1990s.
The win for Stuart Pearce's men followed their 2-1 victory against Norwich a fortnight ago and continued something of a mini-revival for Forest, who before that had gone almost two months without tasting success.
Take the winding gravel path into its mini-forest and find a stone bench along the trickling stream as you channel the spirit of George Harrison's mentor, Swami Paramahansa Yogananda.
But these new mini-forests could absorb carbon dioxide, too, scientists note.
