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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.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.