The danger is that the Vietnamese will turn their unique capital of tree-lined streets shading tile roofs into a second Bangkok--a forest of skyscrapers, a crawl of traffic, and an environmental catastrophe.
Mogadishu in the 80s was a capital of wide, tree-lined streets, coral-stone homes, and a famous Indian Ocean breeze.
I liked the story of the unsold trees being acquired by zoos for feeding to polar bears and elephants, as they're rich in vitamin C. Christian or pagan, Philippine palm or Rockefeller Center's uber-tree (Brunner names New York as the "world capital of the Christmas tree"), this is a tradition worthy of preservation, a residual folk art.
Three hundred feet to my left, in a grove of trees, a Doric capital was shining in the sunlight.
The strong winds knocked down trees and power lines, including in the capital city of Havana where hundreds of trees fell.
Easton, the Christmas-tree capital of Connecticut, is home to half a dozen, all located within a few miles of each other.
It takes an hour to get here by helicopter from the capital, Freetown, 115 miles away, flying over endless canopies of trees and lush mountains.
The first thing we saw on leaving the small airport in the regional capital of Zuiguinchor was an immense tree with around a hundred pelicans perched on its mighty branches.
On the one hand, we're aware of how often it deforms the moral character of people who possess it; on the other hand, it represents a kind of natural capital, like a tree's perfect fruit, that we're instinctively averse to seeing wasted.
The Capital's tree authority is committed to planting tens of thousands of trees, protecting its citizens from the onslaught of extreme weather.
Seven years ago, he and his wife opened the kebab shop and halal grocery store in this breezy, palm tree-lined provincial capital of 135,000 on Spain's Mediterranean coast.
