This exploration may, at first, simply reveal that we don't understand ourselves, and this may be very disturbing. A major obstacle preventing healthy relationships and communication is our inability to listen without being distracted and overwhelmed by our own thoughts or feelings. It has been proposed that, A form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated. So dialogue refers to a flow of meaning moving among and through the participants.
Dialogue implies a quality of listening that is rare in our competitive culture.
But only by sensitive listening can we learn the needs and limits of the land and of other humans. I propose that it is out of this spirit of dialogue that we will find new ways to solve our environmental and social problems and learn how to properly steward the land and our relationships with one another. In traditional forestry the focus is on particular tree stems as cash crops. But in Ecoforestry Forests are seen as having many income-producing products and that the products harvested are selected by Nature for removal. This is the only time-tested and proven method of sustainable forestry.