Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Restraint is treated here as a form of respect, and it applies to far more than landscapes. Some things have been shaped over a long time by processes you did not design and do not fully understand, and the urge to improve them says more about the improver than about the thing. Knowing when to keep your hands off is a genuine skill and an unrewarded one.

Before your next intervention, ask what has already been at work here. In an old organisation, a family, a piece of code, a friendship, the odd arrangement you want to tidy away may be load-bearing. Find out why it is the way it is before you make it better.