The forest, the waste and the pause: why I am carrying a handkerchief again

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I KNOW a handkerchief cannot save a forest. But I've been wondering lately whether the small things we do might trigger something in us about the larger things we care about, and what might change if we started paying attention to them.

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我知道一块手帕救不了整片森林。但我最近一直在想，我们做的这些小事，会不会触动我们内心深处对那些我们真正关心的大事的思考，如果我们开始关注它们，又会发生什么改变呢？

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