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| "Prior to the arrival of our culture, (in North America) unbroken forests ran along the entire eastern seaboard, leading to the cliche that a squirrel could have lept tree to tree from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, never having touched the ground... Polar bears wandered as far south as the Delaware Bay; martens were 'innumerable' in New England; wood bison cruised that region; passenger pigeons passed overhead in flocks that darkened the skies for days at a time, Eskimo curlews did the same; rivers and seas were so full of fish they could be caught by lowering a basket into the water..." ~Derrick Jensen & George Draffan Strangely Like War: the Global Assault on Forests "We would never buy paper made from dead bears, otter, salmon and birds, from ruined native cultures, from destroyed species and destroyed lives, from ancient forests reduced to stumps and mud; but that's what we're buying when we buy paper made from old growth clear-cut trees." ~Margaret Atwood "Species extinction likely continues for a century after deforestation." ~Margot Higgins, Extinction Debt Come Due Long after Deforestation, Environmental News Network |
| Molalla River, Oregon Photo Kerry McQuaid |
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| Jeffrey St. Clair, writer (Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, Counter Punch Newsletter) Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green To Me (2004) signed by Jeffrey St. Clair Auction status: Closed |
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