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A gap the forest tolerates until it decides to grow back over you.
means An open space within a forest where trees are absent, letting light reach the ground; also, the financial process of settling and reconciling transactions between parties.
from From the verb 'clear,' which came into English from Old French 'cler' and ultimately Latin 'clarus,' meaning 'bright, shining, plain' — the same root behind 'clarity' and 'declare.' A clearing is literally a place made bright by the removal of what blocked the light. The financial sense (as in a 'clearing house') is much later, an 18th-century extension of 'clearing' an account, settling debts to leave the books unclouded — bright and plain in a different way.
- light trap
- Sun floods in, so seedlings race to win the gap
- banking
- Trades clear here too, settling debts between distrustful strangers
- customs term
- Clearing means goods escape a border's bureaucratic limbo
- fairy lore
- European myths warned against dancing in forest clearings alone
- firebreak
- Deliberate clearings starve wildfires of fuel to spread
amazon rainforest clearing — deforestation of 17% of original forest since 1970, primarily in brazil
slash and burn agriculture — clearing method used across tropical regions, particularly in southeast asia and congo basin