Fences

Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus told me some years ago that people don’t need to be lifted out of poverty; if you remove the barriers, they will come out for themselves. It’s the same with bringing nature back. In the 1950s, China constructed a railway – along with a fence – across the Gobi Desert. The Mongolian gazelles and khulan wild asses soon disappeared, their natural range cut off. Now, 65 years later, the Wildlife Conservation Society removed a short 2,300-foot section of fencing. And surprise, surprise, the gazelles and khulan are back. Take down more fences and wildlife will return.

— Wayne Visser

From Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living, Volume 3. Buy on Lulu ↗