How to make our forests last (Berry)
July 9th, 2008 | Published in Business, Ecology, Consumerism, Quotes | 1 Comment
If we want our forests to last, then we must make wood products that last, for our forests are more threatened by shoddy workmanship than by clear-cutting or by fire.
—Wendell Berry, “Preserving Wilderness” in Home Economics (1986), p. 143.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:42 am (#)
Berry is infinitely quotable. Here’s one from a recent interview he did with Jeff Fearnside for The Sun magazine (NB: he does not mean Fearnside when he says “you”):
“If you’ve lost the capacity to be outraged by what’s outrageous, you’re dead. Somebody ought to come and haul you off.”