“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.”
“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
“I have that feeling, which I have had often in Chile, that while human beings can make efforts to control, tame and use this place, clearing forests, marking boundaries, their influence here is only transitory.”
“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”
“The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.”
“I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.”