You must prune dead or dying wood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.