“ No matter how long we live here, shaking sawdust from our hair, listening to chainsaws, handsaws or the carpenter’s gentle plane, the wood we touch is an orphaned tree prepared to walk through fire to go home.”
Excerpt from “Tree Life”, a poem in “The Sorrowing House” – Genevieve Lehr.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Where would the birds be without the trees?
Where would the birds be without the trees?
There is an urgent need to discuss the genocide of trees.
We watched Erreur Boréale and I can’t help but to think of Concentration Camps, the killing of millions of people…why should it be so different then; the genocide of millions of trees: life givers of oxygen, of animal habitats, shelter from the wind, safety from the rain, wood for instruments, for homes, for boats…
How many trees need to be sacrificed, how much land needs to be raped, pillaged, seduced under the machine of power before we stop to reflect and recognize the consequences. The effects are not only on humans, but for the wild beings, and the well being of this fragile ecosystem.
How is this sustainable?
There is an urgent need to discuss the genocide of trees.
We watched Erreur Boréale and I can’t help but to think of Concentration Camps, the killing of millions of people…why should it be so different then; the genocide of millions of trees: life givers of oxygen, of animal habitats, shelter from the wind, safety from the rain, wood for instruments, for homes, for boats…
How many trees need to be sacrificed, how much land needs to be raped, pillaged, seduced under the machine of power before we stop to reflect and recognize the consequences. The effects are not only on humans, but for the wild beings, and the well being of this fragile ecosystem.
How is this sustainable?
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