tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29164489.post116056148318350633..comments2024-03-09T15:14:08.489-05:00Comments on Waking Up on Turtle Island: More Gary Snyder "Control Burn"Tim MacSweeneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29164489.post-1161270092622610782006-10-19T11:01:00.000-04:002006-10-19T11:01:00.000-04:00Hey! Thinking is a good thing to do - almost as go...Hey! <BR/>Thinking is a good thing to do - almost as good as daydreaming...Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29164489.post-1161088499482859942006-10-17T08:34:00.000-04:002006-10-17T08:34:00.000-04:00That SER link is great. For so long, "forest manag...That SER link is great. For so long, "forest management" has meant removing any trees that were old enough (and thus worth enough money) or dead enough to provide habitat for any but the most common organisms. When I spoke with descendants of native people in my area, they explained that the image of the savages scraping out a living from the hostile wilderness was a Western myth--that their forefathers worked with the land and life around them in ways different from modern husbandry but with similar effect, the reason why the land seemed so rich and fruitful (lush forests full of nut-bearing trees, abundant game, streams full of fish . . .) to the Europeans when they arrived. They were able to travel very widely because they could easily live off the land wherever they went.<BR/><BR/>I become more convinced as time goes on that shamanic societies were based not on superstition but on esoteric technologies that our society is only beginning to fathom. And of course the idea that an individual can be allowed to profit at the expense of the survival of the group wasn't part of that ethos.<BR/><BR/>Hey, stop making me think!Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.com