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“The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.”

Ideas Growth Tree Fool Normal Average Protection Forests Touched Delusion Yield Fanatics Irritating Mosquitoes Devastation Theorists Few Friends

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.”

Believe Mean Made Country States Whole Growth United United States Ready Demand Disaster Forests Our Country Inevitable Have Faith

Book:Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece

Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.”

People Stars Growth Vision Sky Driven Forests Comment Free Market Blinded Stars In The Sky

Author:Arundhati Roy

“We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.”

Has Beens Growth Water Natural Rich Land Flow Rivers Fishes Forests Consumption Get Rich Hydrocarbons

Book:Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions

Source: Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions

“Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.”

Needs God Growth Numbers Limits Population Stupidity Forests Wilderness Permit Regulation Visitors Population Growth

Author:Dave Barry

“A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.”

Mind Body Inspiration Motivation Language Growth Forests Vocabulary

Author:Wade Davis

“In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.”

Persons Growth Path Middle Hot Forests Giants Thick Hog Narrow Path Hot Days Rare Person

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.”

“We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. Its also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, its an economic issue, not just an ecological one.”

“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”

“An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.”

Important Country Growth Mountain Rivers Forests Range Valleys Mountain Ranges

Author:Arundhati Roy