Nature offers a solutionDownloadAs an old story from Germany goes, workers building the world’s tallest church were preparing to install an immensely long beam, but they couldn’t get it through the city gate. Preparing to dismantle the city wall to clear a path to the construction site, workers saw a House Sparrow carry a long piece of straw up to a crevice, then turn the straw lengthwise. The builders slapped their foreheads and did the same. Transcript: BirdNote® The Wisdom of the Sparrow Written by Rick Wright This is BirdNote.[House Sparrow (162851)] Sometimes, when a problem seems just too difficult for human ingenuity, it pays to look to nature for a solution.Here’s an old story from Germany, about the building of the world’s tallest church 650 years ago. Construction like that is not without its challenges.One day, the workers were preparing to install an immensely long beam, meant to span the entire length of the church. The only problem: they couldn’t get it through the
