Trees in Solomon Islands

In the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, some villagers practise a unique formof logging.if a tree is too large to be felled with an axe, the nativesw cut it down by yelling at it. Woodsmen with special powers creep up on a tree just at dawn and suddenly scream at it at the top of their lungs. Theu continue it for thrity days. The tree dies and falls over.

The theory is that the hollering kills the spiritof thr tree. According to the villagers, it always work.

Ah,those poor naive innocents. Such quaintly charming habits of the jungle. Screaming at trees, indeed. How primitive. Too bad they don't have the advantages of modern technology and the
advantages of modren technology and the scientific mind.

Me? I yellat my wife. And yell at the telephone and the lawn mower. And yell at the TV and the newspaper and my children. I have even been know to shake my fist and yell at the sky at times.

Man next door yell at his car a lot. And this summer I heard him yell at a stepladder for most ofan afternoon. We modern,urban, educated folks yell at traffic and umpires and bills and banks and machines - especially machinese.

Don't know what good it does. Machines and things just sit there. Even kicking does not always help. As for people, well, the Solomon Islanders may have a point. telling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

(Robert Folghum, All I really needtop know I learned in Kindergatren)
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