the hummingbird & the forest fire

Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004, tells a Japanese folk tale about a hummingbird.

(disclaimer: the characters in this tale are fictional. any similarity to any youtubers, awake or asleep, is entirely mystical.)

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• wangari
• maathai
• hummingbird
• forest
• fire
• Japanese
• folk
• tale

[jaysteinbourg]

The humming bird could have done better. He could have found an empty plastic bag, dunked it in the water using his beak and then put out more fire flying over and emptying out with that. Just saying.

[pennilesscripple]

heh

cute

it's an old story from back in the glorious days before plastic bags

[jaysteinbourg]

Then replace plastic bag with skulltop from a small decayed animal, which when held upside down can be used to carry small quantities of water.

[pennilesscripple]

ha

he sure could have used your help!

[runnygrits]

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

Helen Keller

[pennilesscripple]

thank you for that grits

i just saw it again and i really needed to hear that today

[DEATHINKING]

the greatest, most important story ever told

[8rf]

the best of yours... lets all do what we can...

[b2c2552]

sometimes the best you can is not good enough, what you really need then, is a plan, and then a backup plan.

[ecstatica23]

nah, if we burn the planet up in another 20 years it's not because the human species is dumb. We just have to find our hummingbird friends and unite. unity is key.

[jaysteinbourg]

yeah, were dumber. We are going to burn the planet up in another 20 years.

1000 hummingbirds, I like that!

[ecstatica23]

hey jay, I have a better one for you, what if this hummingbird got together with his like minded hummingbird friends? wouldn't that have been better than finding something to use so he can carry more water in? the work of 1000 hummingbirds doing the best they can do would be much more effective than one bird with a scoop, right?

[ecstatica23]

truly though, you don't expect a hummingbird to be that crafty do you? the hummingbird was doing all the it could do, considering it's intelligence and abilities... good thing we are not hummingbirds thought, right?

[Seedr0]

Damn those crafty giraffes...

[chillatuvm]

This is exactly, EXACTLY, what I needed to hear at the end of this day.

Thank you. So much.

[donHooligan]

god i love this video.

[donHooligan]

bet that hummingbirds wings sure got tired.