nests are best

I came across this in Natural Home Magazine and thought to post this as a point of interest in the way of what homes should be.

We could all learn a thing or two from the way birds build their homes.

• These builders sing while they work
• They build sturdy nests with the nontoxic materials at hand
• They never build more than they need to keep their families sheltered
• Each nest is a perfect climatic response
• The nest owners know how to maintain and repair their structures
• When the nest’s useful life is complete, it returns to nature, to become the fertile ground for the growth of the next building cycle.

Isn’t this the way we should all be building our homes? Why have we strayed from this home building model?