What a sad combination. People refuse to curb their numbers, and people refuse to control their lust for material things. John Muir:
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, -chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. . . . It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods, –trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ’s time - and long before that - God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools. . . .
(Quoted from page 343 of The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg.)
For a brief biography of John Muir, click here. For images of and relating to John Muir, click here.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, -chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. . . . It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods, –trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ’s time - and long before that - God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools. . . .
(Quoted from page 343 of The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg.)
For a brief biography of John Muir, click here. For images of and relating to John Muir, click here.
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