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imagine a realm where the seasons
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rhythms rule where centuries of
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agriculture and fishing have reshaped
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the land yet where people and nature
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remain in harmony sang Goro Tanaka
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lives in just such a paradise at 83 he's
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the guardian of one of Japan's secret
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water gardens over a thousand years
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towns and villages have developed a
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unique system to make Springs and water
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part of their homes from inside their
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houses the stream pours into Japan's
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largest freshwater lake near the ancient
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capital of Kyoto
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this is a habitat so precious the
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Japanese have a special word for it
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Sakuya villages their mountains give way
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to planes
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they are exceptional environments
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essential to both the people who
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maintain them and to the wildlife that
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now share them
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late February at Lake Biwa an area five
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times the size of Paris its year has
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four distinct seasons Reed's desiccated
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by winter winds feel the heat of spring
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they are all that remained the rest have
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gone to make roofs or screens flames
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consume both pest and weed the ash will
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prove a powerful fertilizer
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destruction creates the very conditions
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in which a wide range of species will
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eventually flourish by April new shoots
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sprout the fire and smoke have provoked
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new growth spring puts on its new coat
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meltwater cascades from the mountains
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swelling the lake till it brims over
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parched earth soaks into wetland
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sudden sounds split question of the day
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a chain of male cop dance after a female
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some are longer than a man's arm but
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she's bigger still heavy with eggs she
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releases her eggs up to 200,000 and
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males race to festivals
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for the rest of the year these carp
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inhabit the chill depths of the lake the
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sport they must seek warm shadows
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Springs rising energy is released over
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200 car crowd here today
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the conditions created by the firing of
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the marsh offer an ideal site for
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breeding
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there are only a few days a year when so
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many fish from here sangolo the
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fishermen won't miss his chance his
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methods his 20 year old boat his bamboo
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pole all are tried and tested it takes
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years to really master the art of
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punting the river crosses with fresh
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Mountain torrents but here and there
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natural springs were up from the bottom
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the marsh is a maze but to Zangaro it's
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as familiar as his garden he has some 50
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traps set in various corners
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the cop our lake B was spring gift
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sangolo only fishes from March to June
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when the shoals retreat to the lake he
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uses a simple snare of traditional
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materials
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there's not even any bait he just sinks
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a trap for the fish to swim into where
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he places it depends on the weather and
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where he thinks the fish will swim that
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intuition Springs from long experience
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his Hall includes other fish as well as
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carp as they all flock to spawn in the
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shallows
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this trap is full of carp called
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crucians with a single trap he may net a
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dozen fish to take home
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Soula son Goro returns he prepares the
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fish for the table the catch is usually
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sold or cooked for supper that evening
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but today he's preparing Funes sushi who
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knows who she is believed to be how
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sushi first started perhaps a thousand
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years ago it's salted and fermented
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crucian carp and rice it smells sour and
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takes a long time to make first salt
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your fish stand for three months
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mix with boiled rice to ferment leave
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another six months the ingredients rice
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and fish are the key items of the
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Japanese diet
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Sango goes home lies about two
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kilometres inland from the lake shore
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water from bore holes under the village
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is piped into the houses
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after it's been used the water passes
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into a man-made stream what could be a
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parent canal teams with hidden life
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as spring gives way to early summer
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aquatic plants reach for the Sun this
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one takes its name from the tree flower
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it resembles the plum flower and the
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water bottle
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this little stickleback has no scales
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and can only live in the clearest of
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fresh water it normally prefers cold
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northern currents this is the furthest
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south it's from
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the channel also harbors some
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strange-looking creatures
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Brook lampreys primitive the jawless
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fish that resemble ins a river crab
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discovers just how slippery lampreys are
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the channel through the village is home
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to creatures large and small the water
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sustains people too and in turn they use
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it sustainably each home has a built-in
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pool or water tank that lies partly
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inside partly outside its walls in the
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pool lounge friendly ornamental carp a
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continuous stream of spring water is
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piped right into a basin so fresh water
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is always available
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the carp are not purely ornamental nor
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are they to be eaten
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people rinse out pots in the terrace and
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clean their freshly picked vegetables if
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they simply pour the food scraps back in
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the water they risk polluting the whole
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village supply however carp can scour
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out even the greasy or burnt pans they
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do the washing up in Satoru ARMA
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villages this traditional arrangement is
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called the riverside method it's used
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all over Japan cleaned up by the carp
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the tank water eventually rejoins the
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channel
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for some wildlife the man-made Creek
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provides an ideal place to raise young
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like this variety of fresh water goby
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a small fish about as long as a little
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finger the villagers call it the tiny
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mud crawler a male is busy excavating a
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breeding site the even bottom supplies a
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perfect hidey hole as always the best
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locations are highly sought after here
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comes another male he had like to move
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in and he's prepared to fight for it
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both do all they can to look threatening
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opening their mouths and erecting their
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dorsal fins to look bigger it's a
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victory for the sitting tenant
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there's another goby behind him
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she's hanging upside down and she's
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laying eggs the victory over the den
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gave her a place to spawn in safety
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the old simple life of satella ma
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communities is attracting some young
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it's June four months after the hungry
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flames licked their reeds that rose from
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the ashes
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now reach overhead the Martian landscape
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takes on its summer look the dense
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growth is almost like a jungle a world
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filled with tiny lives each single Reed
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stem is a microcosm tiny organisms
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called pseudo plankton live on their
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surface forests of tentacles reach out
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to seize organic material
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earlier in spring young carp
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hatched in the flooded fields they stay
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there for about three months the reed
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beds are their nurseries where they have
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plenty to eat and are concealed from
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predatory birds an infant fish who it's
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a sudden end it's been grabbed the
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attacker is the larva of Japan's largest
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dragonfly this aggressive ambusher hides
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in sand or gravel
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only its head protrudes as it lies in
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wait for its prey it's correct name is
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the golden ringed dragonfly but to the
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Japanese and to Salgado in its handout
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form it's the king of dragonflies Jake's
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accompany apparent coot now is the best
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time to find food and about calls in
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warning the cause the coots number-one
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enemy a weasel egg thief and baby coots
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snatcher and Harris Cape waterfowl have
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to guard against foxes and snakes too
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for safety Greaves make floating
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fortresses and Kurd to firmly rooted
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an adult bird is particularly alert when
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the eggs are hatching
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each crib has its own territory and each
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nests at the same place every year
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here comes Sangala the birds know him
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this is his regular route he spends two
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hours checking all the traps he said
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yesterday his work done sang Goro
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returns to the landing stage you should
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see the ones that got away
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turning muddy banks into reedbeds has
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paid dividends he has nearly 50 fish in
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all of eight different types
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Tsang Gordo won't eat the smallest fish
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he puts them aside he will share his
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good fortune this grey heron knows what
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will happen next
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Tseng Gordo finishes cleaning out his
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boat and another pair of eyes watches
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his every move
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each fishing season this kite pays
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Zangaro a visit when sang Goro
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leaves the grey heron doesn't wait any
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longer it's happy to clear up sang Goro
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left the tiddlers for the birds it's his
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way of sharing nature's riches with
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those around him
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and they are only too pleased to take
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part
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the kite will take the fish back to
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hungry chicks where the village houses
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crowd most twisted together the buffer
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gardens alone pie the talents when a
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branch is a large nest there are two
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chicks there we're developing steadily
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under the watchful eyes of the villagers
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Tsang Gordo's gift is a token of the
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villagers close ties with wildlife force
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angora fishing is not just a job
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viewers de varela Juliana several
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Italian origin had done on the traps
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capture relatively small numbers of fish
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but this means stocks aren't depleted or
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they thought you could ever get up 700
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dollars Erin cuz we're at the as Noah
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you know as no Chino I got under that
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head turns across almost my my anything
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anthology unit taking from nature
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without exhausting its supply is
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practiced throughout subtle yama reads
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will make blinds indispensable in the
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pair of the Javanese summer
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the stems are left for a year to season
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then each is straightened local
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materials find a use locally it's five
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days since the gobies first laid eggs in
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the village channel
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the male is still around
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he's very protective
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keeping predators away and taking great
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care of his offspring golden eyes peer
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out of the egg capsules they're ready to
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break out the anxious father fans them
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keeping them oxygenated
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the newly hatched young are barely the
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size of a match head tiny as they are
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they're about to embark on a journey
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they will ride the current the two
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kilometers to Lake Biwa there they will
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feed on the abundant plankton at the
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same time another new life is about to
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undergo a striking change
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the lava of a golden ring dragonfly in
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the dark hidden from predators it
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quietly begins its metamorphosis
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the lava is now a fully winged
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in ten days it will be sexually mature
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and ready to trigger the next generation
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in the sticky heat of mid-july villagers
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gather overgrown ballasts block the
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stream time to clear the water practice
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20 families band together for their part
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of the channel for the villagers it's a
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welcome task their ancestors carried out
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for hundreds of years for the fish in
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the creek it's a huge nuisance flushed
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out of the shady vegetation they seek
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refuge elsewhere
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it's the children's big moment
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with wild creatures so close children
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experience nature directly fish and
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birds are an everyday part of their
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lives three months have elapsed at Tsang
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Goro's house sangalans wife chicano
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washes the fish salted in spring next
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she will bury them in rice sang Goro's
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job is the back-breaking bit
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first they lay out the fish evenly then
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they cover them they build up several
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mares
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the rice starch feeds microorganisms
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that cause fermentation
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more still no hope you know with
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nature's blessing lafoon Assoc will be
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good again this year
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after the cleanup the channel runs
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smooth and clear small-fry are
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encouraged to return the young goobers
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are now the size of a fingernail ten
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times as big as they were
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the hatchlings from the village have
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spent two months feeding on Lake beavers
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they press on upstream no obstacle
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deters them not even vertical walls
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in laven the channel narrows and ahead
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lies something only too keen to greet
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it's a Japanese tea or batter it feeds
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on fish which is unusual for terrestrial
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snakes
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the quick brown keelback catches the
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lazy goby
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those who escaped continue their travels
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upstream they must avoid herons and
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carnivorous fish true
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the little go bees must find somewhere
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safe from ambushes they bump into a row
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of fence posts inside a carp which won't
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attack them it's the channel that
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carries away the households used water
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Sanga rose pool offers the young Gabby
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sanctuary even if he will have to do the
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dishes
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the villagers enjoy the humid days of
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late summer with their natural neighbors
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it's a drowsy afternoon the moist air
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drains everyone's energy
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the temperature of the spring water in
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the house pools remains a constant
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pleasure
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at last the fiery side burns itself out
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autumn brings welcome fresh breezes it's
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time to gather rice the staple food of
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the Japanese as the rice dries in the
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autumn Sun the smell of hay spreads
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across the fields
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with the harvest in the time has come to
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give thanks sang Goro picks to live fish
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from the house pool they will survive
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but tomorrow is the day the god of the
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rice paddy goes back to the mountains he
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won't depart without being given
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offerings rice cakes sake white radishes
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and the fresh fish
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Tsang Gorrell believes that the god of
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his rice paddy will eat before leaving
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the god will return next spring when
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rice is sown again
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each element in nature has its own God
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every tree rock and stream 8 million
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gods of nature in all prayer and ritual
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express sang Goro's gratitude
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he's almost totally self-sufficient
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thanks to the gifts of nature
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it's December winters harshness lose
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bitter winds start to gust from the lake
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sturdy green gives way to brittle gold
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nine months have passed since the
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scorched earth sent out shoots
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now the reeds saw above the slender
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stems will make screens and thatch
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the farmers cut carefully they don't
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snap or bend the long stalks practice
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has made them perfect
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they heap of the bundles into a
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tent-like shape called a round stand the
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stands will be left to dry all through
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the winter
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the stones are visible reminders of the
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taste connection between the farmers and
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the environment they have created
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winter rips the north of Lake Biwa
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the reedbeds shown no sign of life
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but even snow can't totally erase the
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traces of spring in San Goro's house the
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local delicacy is finally ready
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he caught the carp in his trap in spring
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he and his wife salted them and when
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summer came covered them in rice to
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ferment now a further six months have
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they will eat both fish and rice inside
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is more evidence of nature's bounty the
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orange eggs son Goro
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invites his neighbors to share the
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fuller sushi after half a year of
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maturing the fish has a sour taste of
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cheese slow food that is endlessly
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satisfying preparation preservation and
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finally appreciation the precious
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pleasures of people living at close to
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nature right next to their dining room
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there is the basin full to the brim it's
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cool in summer warm in winter
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the Japanese describe tight-knit
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relationships as being as close as water
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and fish intimate and inseparable like
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the pool and this little refugee the
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Dobby sits in a quiet corner waiting for
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spring
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March finally comes round again the
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reedbeds have stepped throughout the
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winter now
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the first rays of Sun coax warmth into
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once more the silence yields to sounds
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of life as the rhythm of the Year picks
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up so do lives human and animal
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the Japanese have another saying water
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comes the fish live they mean that when
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the right time comes everything
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Salgado knows that in the way of Sabu
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Yama everything has its season
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together sattell yama people and nature
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we've life into a seamless fabric
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blessed by water circling on its journey
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without end
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new season new year a new cycle or begin
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in Japan's secret water garden
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