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In Japan, trees aren't treated as obstacles—they're respected as living beings. 🌳 When roads are built, trees are moved, not removed. The process is called 根回し (Nemawashi)—a traditional technique that involves carefully preparing a tree’s roots before relocation. It’s a powerful example of how progress can work with nature, not against it.

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Then the small trees that got chopped down today wouldn’t go to waste. They added nutrients to the soil and could even prevent landslides. I pondered these things as I followed Iwao back up the slope.

Juliet Winters Carpenter • The Easy Life in Kamusari

descending into long gullies, ascending back to the ridgetop, contouring across knolls, negotiating rough, scoparia-covered slopes, and detouring around rock buttresses on highly exposed ground. The going was slow and deliberate: I cautiously moved

J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker

During my second 初詣 (New Year prayer) in Japan, I was surprised to see a group of people in business attire, waiting for their turn to offer prayers at Meguro Fudosan.

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The Japanese are masters of shinrin-yoku. Shinrin means “forest” in Japanese and yoku means “bath.” Forest bathing via a walk or mountain bike ride in the woods has many advantages, including the reduction of the stress hormone cortisol,

Robin Sharma • The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World

Stepping on this blank zone in October 2019, I wanted to know if I, as a modern Homo Sapien, have the animal instinct to follow the same path of my traces. The route that Truku people migrated to east had already met the colonial modernity at the end of the 19th century. The colonizers established an army to conquer Truku tribes in taking the very ... See more

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There is strong evidence suggesting that this region was a refugium, one of several areas around the Pacific Rim that remained ice-free during the last glaciation, and this may help explain the presence of an ecosystem that exists nowhere else.