One of the joys of living in the country is you meet people whose attitude to the earth is one of daily respect - they don't have to be lectured to about the lessons -to live with the earth is to love it .
A wonderful local lady gave me these loosely translated sayings from her father who was a small farmer in Italy .
"If you always take and never replenish , even the ocean will vanish "
" He who wants to eat with a full mouth will end up choking "
We were talking about one way to decsribe a true conservationist is soemone who knows how to enjoy the earth's abundance when it occurs and when to conserve things for the times when things are short . No quick fix here - just planning .
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