David James Duncan Quotes
Across The Road From My Cabin Was A Huge Clear-cut
hundreds Of Acres Of Massive Spruce Stumps Interspersed With Tiny Douglas Firs
products Of What They Call "Reforestation," Which I Guess Makes The Spindly Firs En Masse A "Reforest," Which Makes An Individual Spindly Fir A "Refir," Which Means You Could Say That Weyerhauser, Who Owns The Joint, Has Refir Madness, Since They Think That Sawing Down 200-foot-tall Spruces And Replacing Them With Puling 2-foot Refirs Is No Different From Farming Beans Or Corn Or Alfalfa. They Even Call The Towering Spires They Wipe From The Earth's Face Forever A "crop"
as If They'd Planted The Virgin Forest! But I'm Just A Fisherman And May Be Missing Some Deeper Significance In Their Nomenclature And Stranger Treatment Of Primordial Trees.
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