Do you need a watch if you tell time by the sun?
Do you need a calendar if you notice the position of the constellations year after year, and note the location of the sunrise and sunset?
Calendars and watches are abstractions of natural phenomenon; symbolic representations of reality that eventually become their own reality. A man made, man purposed reality, sometimes instruments of domination and conquest; the means for the will of remote rule.
When you're in the woods, if you're a woodsman, you don't necessarily need a paper plan for the plot of land you're taking care of. The place is the plan, except rather than a piece of paper or a spreadsheet, it's life sized and three dimensional and completely dynamic.
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