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 For forest people, gardening is a state of mind, a mode they are never out of. The entire Amazon is now believed to one huge man-made landscape kept intact by contant pruning and weeding as humans move through it.
+(Theun: I disagree with much of this; in my opinion [[Ecosystem_gardening]] is much less anthropocentric than suggested here and has nothing to do with growing crops. The tribals we met in India, living in stone-age conditions, had little knowledge about plants beyond their use. Human pressures simply never were high enough to need any management. And lastly being in the rainforest for just a few weeks made me quiet sure that its metabolism is way beyond our capacity to prune and weed it. In fact you can't even keep it from invading your body. I'd like to add that research done by [[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Smits|Willie Smits]] on Borneo has shown Orang-utans to use pruning and weeding and sowing. )
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