How a Botonist Revived a Forest, by 'Doing Nothing'
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 02, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 02, 2026 "Observe nature thoroughly rather than labor thoughtlessly." — Masanobu Fukuoka How a Botonist Revived a Forest, by 'Doing Nothing' When botanist Hugh Wilson looked at 109 hectares of exhausted, gorse-smothered hillside in New Zealand in 1987 and proposed doing essentially nothing, his neighbors called it "fools and dreamers stuff," a phrase that turned out to be more accurate than they intended. His insight was that gorse, the invasive shrub generations of farmers had burned and bulldozed without succe...