Pulsating beneath it all is an insistence that it is not too late to change the catastrophic course of ecology, that it can only be done by listening closely and creatively to nature's own silent lessons, intimating that our mightiest instrument of resilience is rapturous wonder.
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over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests. And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.
George Whitesides — TED Radio Hour
Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.
George Whitesides — TED Radio Hour
I believed from my very first conscious thought that my destiny would rise up and meet me.
André De Shields — Fresh Air