text: If you think about it, since we do all of our work with existing materials and spaces, we are not able to create anything without destroying something else. If we build a house, we have destroyed an open space in the place we built our house. If we use wood to build a house, we have destroyed a tree to get the wood.  It is impossible for us to make anything without un-making (or drastically altering) some other thing as part of the same process.  But since we are capable of thinking about our choices, we should always pause when we have an idea to build something, while we decide whether the accompanying destruction will be worthwhile.\nI don't mean for this to sound so lofty, idealistic and unreal.  It is a simple, often overlooked truth. Everything that a human can take as food is a thing that was once living, with very few exceptions, notably milk and honey. Destruction goes hand in hand with creation. Our mistake is in focusing on one, but not acknowledging the other.