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Ecological Restoration And Go
Ecological Restoration
Ecological Restoration is the newly developing science of healing this planet, and the A few years ago I spent a week planting trees in the Highlands of Scotland with the charity organisation 'Trees for Life', helping to restore the Caledonian Forest. While doing this I discovered my first analogy of ecological restoration with playing go. For some reason planting a tree felt abit like plonking a go stone on the board! I think it was partly because we were encouraged to follow our instincts with regards to the placement of the trees, leaving just enough spacing - trying to mimic the kind of semi-random layout that would occur naturally.
I have reproduced here the shortened version of the principles, taken from the
The Principles of Ecological Restoration -- starline adammarquis: I'm glad to see people posting analogies to go; I think it is an elegant way to show how fundemental and at base simple the game is. I find this particular connection very pleasing, perhaps due to its gentle nature bent. Seeing somebody finding non-war/conflict analogies is a welcome change from the norm as well. This is a copy of the living page "Ecological Restoration And Go" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |