“The ultimate test of ecological understanding is not whether we can conquer nature, but whether we can take degraded ecosystems and from them reestablish complex, naturalistic, and healthy ecosystems.”
John J. Berger, Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Protection, and Restoration, pg. 165
“Our current treatment of the forest is radical – destruction of forest ecosystems for short-term benefits.”
Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees (1991)
“Forests must be protected for their intrinsic worth, apart from their beauty and value to us, even as they promote the long-term economic vitality of local communities. Forests are complex ecological treasures that have a right to exist. We may use them, but no more ought to obliterate them than to demolish temples filled with rare, illuminated manuscripts and priceless antiquities we scarcely understand.”
John J. Berger, Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Protection, and Restoration, pg. 165
“The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees (1991)
