One-on-one with nature: 2 examples from real life




In real life to find examples to follow, too easy, but recently I discovered an African from Burkina Faso named yacouba Sawadogo and it makes all the difference.

He is called the man who won the desert. Rather, he defeated a terrible harbinger of the desert — Sahel: when in a dry year the greens are disappearing, trees are dying, and the earth turns into a crust, from which next year certainly nothing grows. Sahel comes every year and recaptures the last fertile land. Africans are struggling with this phenomenon using the ancient technique of "Zay": digging wells, which delayed rainwater (otherwise it just spreads across the hot ground and evaporates scab). But there was a time that even Zay are not helped and many families emigrated to neighboring countries (Gabon, etc.) where you do not have time to get the Sahel.

Jacob left, and began to wrestle with the problem.He invented not just to dig wells, and:
1) to put the straw, which is longer delayed to moisture 2) make it ahead of sowing 3) hooked into the fields of the termites, their moves would make the soil porous, friable, and therefore able to hold more water

And he did that didn't work, no one and what was thrown, and the forces and Western humanitarian aid! From Jakub grew a real garden, then the forest, then many acres of forests and fields. It is interesting that the opponents of his methods (the tribal leaders) forbade peasants to listen Yakub, as it is contrary to the traditions. In the end, the opponents of innovation have set fire to plantations Jakub and he had to start all over again. But he never gave up, started over and now his merits are recognized by all. In my opinion this is an example for all of us.
 


Here's another example among our countrymen.

At the end of the XIX century, lived in Moscow a rich merchant Nikolai Igumnov. It so happened that he was in the Royal disgrace. It all began in 1901 with the great Moscow ball, which gave in its new home–a mansion on Yakimanka the owner of the Yaroslavl Big manufactory, known not only for his wealth, but also boundless imagination (one only has to look at his house, where now is located the French Embassy), the first Guild merchant Nikolai Igumnov. To surprise the guests, Nikolai strewn floor dance halls in gold coins, adorned with the face of the Emperor.

Fun swirled in a waltz guests Igumnov, not paying attention to what their ballroom shoes trample a gold image of the Russian Tsar. But, as always, was among the guests alert the person who the next day conveyed to Petersburg to Nicholas II about the desecration of the image of the Emperor on the ball at the merchant Igumnov. The Tsar was very angry and ordered to expel disrespectful of a merchant from Moscow, somewhere far away.

In Abscheu. Think of the resort? Wrong, the beginning of XX century, the Abkhazian coast was a rotten, boggy place, where, thanks to the humid subtropical climate of the raging malaria and other diseases.
Not at all desperate, he decided to give the local Prince a few thousand acres of this land. Purchased and planted eucalyptus trees (tree–pump, able to pump from the soil the amount of water in 10 times its weight) and swamp cypresses, thereby drying up the swamps. Delivered barges of the Kuban land. Planted tangerine garden, plantation of medicinal trees, kiwi, mango, Tung and tobacco. Brought livestock and fish farms. Thanks master grip Igumnov drastically changed this piece of land.

It is even said that he planted the cypress trees in the form of their initials and a huge letter "And" easy to see on the map of Abkhazia removed from the space. Next to it is possible to distinguish between the two, however, is less clear "N" and "b". This is a cypress alley planted in the form of the initials of this remarkable man.

Source: interest-planet.ru/blog/Africa/713.html

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