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user-inactivated  ·  1617 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I don't like bonsai but I like this tree . . .

There are some things I like about it. The aesthetics, obviously. I can also appreciate the amount of knowledge, skill, and patience that's needed to cultivate a good bonsai tree as well. As weird as it sounds though, I find the act of stunting a tree's growth, to keep it from becoming what it's biologically driven to become, kind of cruel. Even though it is just a plant.