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“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.”

People Men Needs Use Today America Numbers Stage Fields Depends Happenings Forests Rational Reasonable Grain Continents Irrational Finite Plague Attacking North America Massacres Pests

Author:Edward Abbey

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”

Men Firsts Whole Facts America Lying History Creation Thousand Forests Britain Rome Egypt Greece Encyclopedia Acorns Greece And Rome

Book:Twelve Essays

Source: Twelve Essays

“The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.”

Men Has Beens God America Science Delight Forests Slighted

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.”

America Clear Sky Healthy Projects Forests Corporate Initiative Pipeline Keystones Clear Skies

Author:Jeff Goodell

“the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.”

Light America White Forests Symbols Burning Sweeping Camping Lanterns White Light Craze Lantern Light

Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

“We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America.”

World America Cities Buddhism Forests

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.”

“It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.”

“In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.”

Knows Stills Country America Evil Sun Faults Setting Forests Settings Our Country Rising

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.”

Heart Book America Lost Adventure Goes On Guides Forests Faithful Take Me Interiors Compass Skillful Buzz Clamor Waltz

Author:James Tate

“Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.”

Seems Happens America Fire Ordinary Folks Extremes Forests Weather Over It Massive Flood Catastrophe Drought Tornadoes Forest Fires Extreme Weather Sinkholes

Author:Jane Velez-Mitchell