Preston treats these trees like individuals, in turn drawing a connection to the human movement of millions into these cities, people who are similarly uprooted from their longtime homes. “In this migratory process, trees and people experience the same trauma of leaving a familiar land and a familiar life more in tune with nature,” writes Zelda Cheatle in a book essay. “But new life does provide new opportunities. Like the rural dwellers that migrated to the city, some of the transplanted trees do adapt and grow.”
(via A Photographer Follows the Urban Migration of China’s Rural Trees)
