Powerful Inaction

 

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How powerful is inaction

when we decide not to mow

but instead to allow

volunteer trees unmolested

to grow.

 

How powerful when we

decide not to kill

not to pay for slaughterhouse

murder

in which blood everywhere spills.

not cause blood to spill.

 

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Footnote:


A much higher % of early Christians were vegetarian in the 1st 300 years after Jesus' death than are now.

vegetarian Muslim master vegetarian Buddhist master

Often powerful decisions involve inaction, doing nothing. 1 of best ways to heal our planet is to let trees grow, automatically if we stop mowing with manual, machine mowers or with animal shredding plant shredding machine harvesters

66 reasons not to mow

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