No more bluebells

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
Herman Hesse 
 
A walk through a bluebell woodland alongside the river was rudely interrupted by the site of clearance work, probably for proposed residential and business development.