:21:06
Well....
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The ``country''.....
:21:10
Oh, I'm sorry. I keep saying the ``country''.
:21:13
No, it's an important point, y'know.
:21:17
Oh?
:21:19
Uh-huh. You see, when people from big cities see the forests, the
woods, or the flowing water, they quickly accept such things as
natural.
:21:28
However, except in the highest reaches of the mountains, all the sites
that are called the ``country'' are actually made by people.
:21:34
People?
:21:37
Yes, farmers.
:21:44
That forest too?
:21:46
Yep.
:21:47
That wood, too?
:21:49
Yep.
:21:50
This stream, too?
:21:51
Yep.
:21:53
It's not only rice paddies or fields. Every place has its own
history-
:21:59
-say, from someone's great grandfather who had been planting or
cultivating, or had been gathering kindling or mushrooms, since long
ago.
:22:07
Oh, I see.
:22:10
While people've been either fighting with nature or gaining its
benefits, some good had come from what they did; the way the
countryside has come to look now, all of this.
:22:20
Hasn't the appearance itself come without people's help?
:22:25
Well...
:22:27
Farmers couldn't live without getting continuous benefits from nature,
could they?
:22:34
And that's why the farmers, for a long, long time, have also been
doing many things for nature themselves.
:22:44
One might say this is the interdependence between nature and people.
:22:50
Maybe this is what ``the country'' is.
:22:55
I see. I think that's why it's nostalgic.