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Lee Kuan Yew talks at great length throughout his memoirs on building Singapore about trees specifically, trees *as such*, being harbingers and indicators and inspirers of great things: https://t.co/hhgMmvhDsv
Lee Kuan Yew talks at great length throughout his memoirs on building Singapore about trees specifically, trees *as such*, being harbingers and indicators and inspirers of great things: https://t.co/hhgMmvhDsv
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1682079355445424129
This by far not the only mention of trees, btw.
Go read it yourself if you don't believe me.
Lee Kuan Yew straight up keeps talking about the importance of trees all throughout the book.
It's a topic which he feels compelled to revisit, sometimes seemingly arbitrarily.
Go read it yourself if you don't believe me.
Lee Kuan Yew straight up keeps talking about the importance of trees all throughout the book.
It's a topic which he feels compelled to revisit, sometimes seemingly arbitrarily.
I think part of LKY's attention to trees—and his attention to matters of growth or nutrients and life-forms, or metaphors invoking them—is that the business and duty of proper governance is very much like that of gardener's.
Greater yields and beautiful flowers go hand in hand.
Greater yields and beautiful flowers go hand in hand.
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