tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post1210287644364518104..comments2024-03-28T08:30:15.957+01:00Comments on Invisible Paris: I Remember When This Will All Be TreesAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-85088967963327176942013-08-22T23:21:09.543+02:002013-08-22T23:21:09.543+02:00inspired, hopeful and thanks!inspired, hopeful and thanks!oliviadoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08635814846640416522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-84802983593061317142013-06-09T20:32:49.635+02:002013-06-09T20:32:49.635+02:00This is great! Can't wait to visit on our nex...This is great! Can't wait to visit on our next trip to Paris...in 2016!Astrid Steinhilberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11992396084699819565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-51372308793804362372013-06-03T23:04:06.984+02:002013-06-03T23:04:06.984+02:00I love your choice of title. And how interesting t...I love your choice of title. And how interesting that there are still shantytowns like those that once covered vast areas north of Montmartre. Didn't they call it the "Zone"?Philippahttp://parisianfields.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-83360085311392581502013-06-03T12:06:28.796+02:002013-06-03T12:06:28.796+02:00Anonymous: In times past, people would commence im...Anonymous: In times past, people would commence immense projects such as cathedrals and castles knowing that they would never see the finished item. Today we expect vast skyscrapers to appear in months, and parks and forests to be instantly mature.<br /><br />What interested me here was this in-between period. We usually know what things once were and what they've become, but we rarely look Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-67083858982094126392013-06-01T20:50:06.870+02:002013-06-01T20:50:06.870+02:00As one who will not live to see this forest grow t...As one who will not live to see this forest grow to maturity, I respect those who can find the will to plan long term. In my youth it felt that such planning was kind of a hopeful gesture at best. But even today I was admiring the thickness of the trees in the Place du Chatelet, remembering (what seems like yesterday) how bereft of such it felt like in 1998. And then the cynic in me arrives, the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-1283331755394609562013-06-01T18:57:15.536+02:002013-06-01T18:57:15.536+02:00paris really is awful in parts, great blogparis really is awful in parts, great bloggeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01258332886749996888noreply@blogger.com