When I see a tree with someone’s initial’s carved into it, I get really mad. Carving a tree trunk is a good way to kill a tree, it’s rude, and it looks really stupid and junky.
But I don’t mind when I see someone carving words into bamboo. Maybe it is because bamboo grows so quickly and easily, maybe it is because it doesn’t kill the plant, or maybe, just maybe, it’s because Chines graffiti looks so much cooler than English graffiti. Yep, that’s it I think.
As I rode the slick new escalators up the side of the mountain in the Xiamen botanical Gardens, I hated myself a little. Why was I here, supporting the destruction and abuse of this gorgeous natural mountain? I mean, is there anything lazier than taking an escalator up a mountain?
You’d think in a country where Instagram was blocked there would be no Instagrammification of places. But then you’d be wrong…very wrong.
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