We are not in any way threatening the innocent activity of just the occasional plucking of a wild flower.
He said that, if subsection (3) was deleted, everyone who picked a wild flower would be guilty of theft—that any severance would be theft.
That is a very material difference from saying that if you pick a wild flower it is theft.
These are the creation of a wild flower sanctuary and scented gardens, which will give particular pleasure to the blind.
I suppose it can be argued that the picking of a wild flower does not injure the growth of the plant.
Saving the habitat of some rare insect or wild flower can only be applauded.
Yet the day after he deliberately committed that offence, the landowner — perhaps subsidised by taxpayers' funds—destroyed the whole of the area in which the wild flower grew.
The station is having the front entrance renovated, bridge refurbished, station buildings repainted and decorated and replanted and landscaped wild flower areas.
