Comments on: The golden rule is not the gospel, nor the law. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/10/the-golden-rule-is-not-the-gospel-nor-the-law/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: chrisgale https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/10/the-golden-rule-is-not-the-gospel-nor-the-law/comment-page-1/#comment-3884 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:05:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=5042#comment-3884 Well, I have spent time in Southern California, and I agree. It is very different from where I live: Otago is one of the dryer parts of NZ (we are on the Eastern side of the mountains: the other side is rain forest. Seriously cold rainforest) but even here we get a fair amount of rain, particularly in spring (we could get snow this weekend, and the daffodils have faded).

Trees are more than important here. They are either protected or harvested.

]]> By: Hearthrose https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/10/the-golden-rule-is-not-the-gospel-nor-the-law/comment-page-1/#comment-3883 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:29:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=5042#comment-3883 I live in the sorta-desert (very like Israel) and trees – well rooted trees – are a thing of profound beauty and rarity. They laugh at drought, flood, cold and hot (insofar as we get those last). They are a place of refuge, food and shelter and shade. Trees are *important*.

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