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Sunday 29th of March 2026

By the numbers Net change, in acres, in the world's forested land since 1990: −319,000,000 In China's: +126,500,000 Harper's Index, February 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Donald Trump, 12:08 AM – 10 Nov 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Law Being inanimate should not be a barrier to legal personhood – the courts are well populated by inanimate objects: the State, the Church and the corpo- ration have all, over the centuries, been recognized by the law. Why shouldn't nature have the same legal standing as the companies seeking to exploit it? André Dao,  “What if trees could sue?” New Philosopher #14: Nature © 2016 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Chop me down before I kill again Sign posted on a tree by students at Claremont College in response to Ronald Reagan's claim that “Eighty percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Technology There is no existential comfort to be found in artificial wood, unchanged by time, none of the melancholy that paves our understanding and embrace of time and dying. It's not that it taunts us with comparative immortality. It speaks nothing. Nina MacLaughlin, Hammer Head © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trees The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the next best time is now. Chinese proverb © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trees I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash, “Song of the Open Road” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trees Like humans, forests have always migrated for their survival, with new trees growing in more hospitable directions and older trees  dying where they are no longer best suited to live. The problem now is that they simply can’t move fast enough. The average forest migrates at a rate of roughly 1,640 feet each year, but to outrun climate change, it must move approximately 9,800 to 16,000 feet — up to 10 times as fast. And in most habitats, the impact of highways, suburban sprawl, and megafarms prevents forests from expanding much at all. Forests simply cannot escape climate change by themselves. Laura Markham, Mother Jones, November/December 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Trees A tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. William Blake, letter to Rev. John Trusler, August 16, 1777 © 2017 Kwiple.com