If someone invented wood today it would never be approved as a building material. It burns, it rots, it has different strength properties depending on its orientation, no two pieces are alike, and most cruelly of all, it expands and contracts based on relative humidity. Can it get worse? But, of course. Wood expands differently based on orientation. However, despite all of these problems, wood is the material of choice when it comes to building houses
That is to abstract (or is it just random?) for my mind to conceptualize. I can think of a few fitting metaphors, but it's hard to know which, if any, you are alluding to. I therefore deem the statement unintelligible, or possibly even completely random.
