Forests Quotes

• The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.

  

  Adam Werbach
  • Issues
  • Guide
  • Forests

• Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Climate

• Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Business
  • Wilderness
  • Forests

• We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Game
  • Spirit
  • Tragedy

• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Experience
  • Train
  • Resources

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