Once again I see these hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines of
sportive wood run wild.
William Wordsworth, from Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on
Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798.
Hedge-rows and avenues of trees provide habitat, refuge and food for animals. Often, they provide food for humans too - but in our sanitised world, many people are reluctant to eat wild blackberries. Linear woods beautify landscapes that would otherwise be homogenised by human activity.
Here are some examples.
| Hedge-rows near Glastonbury Tor, England
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Avenue of Honour, Bachus Marsh, Australia
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Avenue of Eucalypts, Gippsland, Australia
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Avenue of Elms and Eucalytpus,
Melbourne, Australia
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