Natural disasters strip away the built environment and reveal what it had been covering: the landscape's true character, the community's actual bonds, the individual's core nature under pressure. Nasreddin lived through floods, droughts, and the passage of armies, and what he consistently noticed was that the disaster was never the end of the story — it was, usually, the place where the real story began. Resilience is not the absence of collapse; it is what happens after.
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