“The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.”
Source: Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
“Thus as foreign mining and logging companies open up new areas for new forms of colonial exploitation they set up prostitution industries to service the workers. These industries have a profound effect on local cultures and relations between men and women.”
Source: The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
“Overall, the cost to the Forest Service to prepare and administer the timer sales, to oversee the construction of the roads, to mitigate (in usually small ineffective ways) the damage to the landscape far outweighs any fiscal return.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.”
Source: Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
“As with grazing on the BLM rangelands, the destruction of our forests is heavily subsidized. The most common estimate is the Forest Service loses between $1,400 and $1,900 per acre logged.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“The annual volume of forest felled during the Obama administration was higher than all the years during the George W. Bush administration but one. In the year Obama took office, 2009, the cut was 1,954,092,000 board feet; at the end of the Obama administration in 2016 it was up to 2,536,601,000 board feet, an increase of almost 30 percent. Much of this was done under the pretext of preventing wildfire.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“You either win or you learn. Consider everything a win if the goal is to gain experience and level-up.”
Source: Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book
“Forest sociologist Robert Lee says city dwellers are more likely to feel guilt toward nature, which he attributes to disconnection from nature rather than empathy toward it: "They are very likely to regard trees as a symbol of immortality or continuity," wrote Lee in one study. Rural residents, by contrast, "can live with the ambivalence of loving nature and cutting trees. It's an acceptance that that's life.”
Source: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
“Monstrous extremities including skulls stunted legs and trunks monstrous arms stunted faces.”
Source: Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
“You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.”