Accelerate Quote by Richard Flanagan

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or…

— Wendell Berry

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we…

— Wangari Maathai

We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it is needed.…

— Bjorn Lomborg

For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original…

— Julia Hill

“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.”

— Mark Frost

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in…

— Johan Eliasch

“To support an adequate standard of living, humankind still needs huge quantities of wood and wood products, from planking and beams and fibreboard to…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural…

— Winnie Byanyima

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

— Susan George

Forestry is the work of nation builders.

— William Bulfin

Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be…

— Gregg Easterbrook