Robert Fulghum in his book, “All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, tells us a wonderful story titled “Yelling”. There are some villagers in Solomon Islands in the South Pacific that have found a unique way of felling trees. If a large tree is to be felled and it’s too large to be cut down wit an axe they have come up with a unique way of doing so.
Early at dawn villagers creep around the tree and yell at it incessantly. Legend is that woodsmen with special powers yell at the tree for a month or so until it slowly withers and dies. Such is the
power of yelling and harsh words.
power of yelling and harsh words.
Words have tremendous power when used as well as not used.One is forced to look at mechanised tree felling operations which take place with latest technology new age machines . A wordlessly
committed action. One with words the other without. Yet the tree dies in both situations. Spoken
and unspoken words have tremendous power to damage things. They need to be used with extra
caution.
committed action. One with words the other without. Yet the tree dies in both situations. Spoken
and unspoken words have tremendous power to damage things. They need to be used with extra
caution.
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