Professor Wilhelm Augustus von Liebwinkel-Gonzalez of the famed Prague Institute of Forestry postulates that an insufficient number of the world's population were paying attention during Monty Python's first season, which featured the highly educational guide 'How To Recognize Different Types Of Tree From Quite A Long Way Away'.
I confess to being a frequent offender when it comes to overlooking trees. There's a common larch in my neighbor's yard that I thought was an accordion. Now I understand why I always got bark under my fingernails when I tried to play Lady of Spain on it.
Dog-paddling in the shallow end of the gene pool, I remain,
SM
When I was in Germany, back in 2000, We were driving thru a rural area on a narrow road, with huge trees lining both sides of the road very close to the road surface. There were signs spaced about every hundred feet or so that depicted a car smashed into a tree and a red circle with a line thru it, and some German words under it. It’s meaning was clear: DO NOT RUN INTO TREES!.............
They thought those trees were just fellow liberals