Hey fellows, I hope you achieve all your dreams too!
I wanted to throw some words into this thread about beavers. I was reading a book from sometime in the 1800s the other day about beavers. This fellow reckons there were about one hundred million beavers here in the US pre settlers. Unbelievable water storage and land management. He witnessed that when they were trapped they would raise their hands above their heads to fend off the blow and usually die after two or three without a sound, without ferocity. Living a life of peace, perhaps in the beaver home their ancestors built. Some trees were harmed sure but it was in the name of something that was working.
The settlers killed almost all of these beavers, extincting them in many locales. They used their corpses as currency, the hide the object by which to set a standard of value to guns and tools.
I don’t think much has changed. The willingness to sell living or dead things for profit, as a way of accumulating more for oneself. This is so fundamentally wrong to being an intact spiritual being on earth. I have raised and butchered animals, killed many a plant and insect and have learned and continue to learn only that their lives are equal to mine in an elemental way.
The man who can kill and sell the beaver in droves for profit can sell them selves just as easily.
Can you all imagine how different the wind would be if all of the old growth in this country hadn’t been cut, and if the regrowth wasn’t managed as tree farms?
I wanted to throw some words into this thread about beavers. I was reading a book from sometime in the 1800s the other day about beavers. This fellow reckons there were about one hundred million beavers here in the US pre settlers. Unbelievable water storage and land management. He witnessed that when they were trapped they would raise their hands above their heads to fend off the blow and usually die after two or three without a sound, without ferocity. Living a life of peace, perhaps in the beaver home their ancestors built. Some trees were harmed sure but it was in the name of something that was working.
The settlers killed almost all of these beavers, extincting them in many locales. They used their corpses as currency, the hide the object by which to set a standard of value to guns and tools.
I don’t think much has changed. The willingness to sell living or dead things for profit, as a way of accumulating more for oneself. This is so fundamentally wrong to being an intact spiritual being on earth. I have raised and butchered animals, killed many a plant and insect and have learned and continue to learn only that their lives are equal to mine in an elemental way.
The man who can kill and sell the beaver in droves for profit can sell them selves just as easily.
Can you all imagine how different the wind would be if all of the old growth in this country hadn’t been cut, and if the regrowth wasn’t managed as tree farms?
