http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/11/05/thursday-short-poem-nemerovs-learning-by-doing/ Author, Speaker, Professor, Shattering Gender Myths Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/11/05/thursday-short-poem-nemerovs-learning-by-doing/#comment-9482 Hilary Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:42:19 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2009/11/05/thursday-short-poem-nemerovs-learning-by-doing/#comment-9482 I loooove this. Thank you. I loooove this. Thank you.

]]> http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/11/05/thursday-short-poem-nemerovs-learning-by-doing/#comment-9481 Angiportus Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:55:52 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2009/11/05/thursday-short-poem-nemerovs-learning-by-doing/#comment-9481 I'm with you, and Nemerov--even though I know that wood is needed for building houses and other items, in my case, trebuchets. I too have returned to childhood homes to find trees gone, with the inevitable excuse that they were old or something. They sure didn't look it just a year before when I left, and I still wonder. Our town is good at taking out the shade-generous old indispensables that line the streets and root-hump the pavement and, in the height of summer, replacing them with tiny saplings that provide little shade and might not get to live out their natural span either. And this does not count my discovery that some trees make things I can eat--and when one of these is slaughtered, I have to get food somewhere else. It takes only an hour or so to rebuild a distorted sidewalk, but it takes decades to replace a good tree. I’m with you, and Nemerov–even though I know that wood is needed for building houses and other items, in my case, trebuchets.
I too have returned to childhood homes to find trees gone, with the inevitable excuse that they were old or something. They sure didn’t look it just a year before when I left, and I still wonder.
Our town is good at taking out the shade-generous old indispensables that line the streets and root-hump the pavement and, in the height of summer, replacing them with tiny saplings that provide little shade and might not get to live out their natural span either. And this does not count my discovery that some trees make things I can eat–and when one of these is slaughtered, I have to get food somewhere else.
It takes only an hour or so to rebuild a distorted sidewalk, but it takes decades to replace a good tree.

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