[Alberta's Child]

I honestly don't understand the point of your post. If I run a sawmill and I send a crew out tomorrow morning to cut some raw logs, they're going to come back empty-handed if they ignore individual trees and think instead in terms of the whole forest.

[null and void]

I didn't think you'd get it.

[A. Pole]

If I run a sawmill and I send a crew out tomorrow morning to cut some raw logs, they're going to come back empty-handed if they ignore individual trees and think instead in terms of the whole forest.

And when one day the forest is gone (because nobody took care to replenish it) you will be wondering where all those trees has gone.