With the removal of so many trees in Puna as of late....something to ponder.

​ “It was in an American desert that I suddenly realized that rain does not fall from the heavens – it comes up from the ground."

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​There is an interesting and thought-provoking quote from Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer and philosopher renowned for his natural farming, that is quite pertinent to climate resiliency. The author of The One Straw Revolution, Fukuoka states,     “It was in an American desert that I suddenly realized that rain does not fall from the heavens – it comes up from the ground. Desert formation is not due to the absence of rain, but the rain ceases to fall because the vegetation has disappeared.”

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