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a new dislocation to utopia 'But the forest is more than just a collection of trees...', said Dr. T. C. Whitmore. The myriad of living entities in the forest is truly legion and our present knowledge, at best, has only begun to scratch modestly at the surface of our ignorance. To the forest dwellers like the Orang Asli of South-east Asia (and scientists like the late T. C. Whitmore) who spent the better part of their lives in the rain forest, the web of life is real and respected. It is exasperatingly absurb how a modern city-man would, walking in his neat and ornated garden in his spare time, declare it as the one true Nature. Such thing can |
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Far fewer Orang Asli lives in their traditional forest-dwelling now; their predecessors having been dislocated forcibly at the height of the Emergency in the aftermath of WWII. Today, the act of dislocation continues but it is knocking instead on the mind-doors of the modern man, and he is being hard-sold the utopic notion of Nature.
Who is there to stand for the truth, the light and the goodness of Nature ? I believe the beetle that dies and rots in the forest, and nourishes it by its death, is a far better candidate than the living man who bows before his almighty gods of love and truth, or the most educated couch-potato who sits through all that Discovery Channel has to offer on television, and yet he remains not enlightened. The effable heart is hard to find.
See Mother and Grandmother of All Forest Destruction
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See Sedi-mentality: do we really know our geography ?
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