[ WP ] `` Mommy , what are trees ? ''

`` Where did you hear about that, honey?'' I said to my 5-year-old daughter. `` In my book I got from school. Do you want to see it?'' I nodded. I was intrigued; what book would talk about trees, especially nowadays? She took it out of her bag, and handed the thin paperback book to me. It was called,'The Green Memory' and pretty much described trees and what happened to them, in the famous Paper Purge of the 2030s, when I was a young girl. One of my earliest memories was going to the conservation centre in the middle of London, and being amazed at one solitary tree, proudly standing uncontested, seeing as there were no others in 50 miles. Afterwards, I was showed pictures from only 10 years previously of columns of trees going on for miles, and wondered what could have been. All of these memories came back to me at once, and it was slightly overwhelming. However, my daughter was still sitting next to me on the train carriage, waiting for an answer. I took a deep breath and began to speak. `` When Mummy was a little girl, there were these things called trees, and they were made out of wood.'' I looked at the arm rest, made of'wood', and spoke again. `` Not like the wood on your chair at school, that's different, but this wood was better. This wood had these green things called leaves on it. They turned yellow and brown towards Christmas, and then they would come back in March and April.'' My daughter looked puzzled. `` Why are n't they here any more?'' `` Trees, when they were chopped down, made paper, like in your books, and people really needed paper, so they chopped down more and more trees, until eventually, there were none.'' Her expression had turned from puzzlement to sadness. `` Okay… thanks, Mummy.'' `` Come now, do n't cry, it's not so bad.'' But I was n't sure if that was true. 
 
 
 SIDENOTE: This is my first ever WP, and I do n't know much about this sub yet, so bear with me, please.
