"Saving trees simply means not felling them. That is the point: if we learn to use and re-use what Mother Nature has given us (or that we have in some cases stolen from Nature) there would no longer be need to ill-treat Her. To recycle means to love nature, recycling wood means saving trees."

"Man can do much to safeguard the environment. Technology can be destructive: like the type of technology adopted by Pacific Lumber that uses chain saws more than two metres long to cut down trees. It then collects the tree trunks using enormous helicopters that wreck entire hillsides with their blades, or uses them to squirt liquid fire, napalm, onto the areas that have just been cleared so that from above the deforestation is not evident. But luckily there is another side to the coin: technology can be used with respect for people and things. By re-using resources, for example. In Mantua in Italy there is the Ecological Panel Consortium that groups together numerous companies that use recycled wood only to manufacture furniture. An enterprise that alone saves 8,000 trees every day. Nearly 3 million trees each year."

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