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Originally Posted by wulkowicz  (A Muttering from Years Past)
The Olde Oak Tale
As a matter of philosophy and ethic, I try to only watch trees and have them teach me.
Bob Wulkowicz |
That's partially how I look at it, but in a figurative sense. On my home page is a statement about blending lessons from nature with landscape technology.
But I think the teaching stems from self-teaching and how my educators taught me to glean and evaluate information. So the trees provide the examples which can be used for a learning tool.
But in basic simple everyday speech, it's reasonable to say that the trees teach.
In fact, that's how I learned that "lion's tailiing" was bad, years before I heard about it from a book or a class.
In a way, I tend to view trees as providing "testimony" as witnesses. Trees don't lie and they basically can't make a mistake.