#something to learn from

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#phantomquill

[good-miscellaneous-things]

An old mans advice.

[kxngl]

[sir-poet]

The past is never a bad thing...It's just something for us to learn from...something that will teach us from our mistakes...

[jessistark-blog-blog]

According to William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle, the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin have harvested wood for sale from their forested land for many generations. In 1870, the Menominee inventoried 1.3 billion standing board feet of timber on their 235,000 acres. Since then, they have harvested nearly twice that amount: 2.25 billion board feet. Employing the "clear-cutting" method of some corporate lumber merchants, which completely strips land of its trees, the Menominee would have barely a single tree left, not to mention any forest wildlife. In fact, they currently have 1.7 billion standing board feet, more than they had in 1870, along with a thriving forest ecosystem. This is because the Menominee tend to cut only the weaker trees, leaving behind the strong mother trees and enough of the upper canopy for the arboreal animals to continue to live there. As McDonough and Braungart write: "One might say they have figured out what the forest can productively offer them instead of considering only what they want."

Colin Beavan, No Impact Man (2009). If only the entire world could figure out how to live this way.

[sourgummycandy]

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

F. Sagan

[sourgummycandy]

In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach.