Lou lives!

[flushcut]

instead i have young nasty bur oak

Well you could do your part to nurture that oak into a nice stately tree for future generations. "Society grows great when men plant trees whose shade they will never sit under"

 

[stig]

Abe Lincoln?

 

[flushcut]

Greek proverb, I read it in the back of a Sherrill catalogue. It has a, for the greater good feel to it.

 

[woodworkingboy]

"Society grows great when men plant trees whose shade they will never sit under"

I would add, "Or the wood from them made into tables that they will never eat upon".

 

[flushcut]

Ha! Very good, I can't imagine why you wood come up with that one.

 

[sotc]

Logger at heart

 

[woodworkingboy]

'fraid so. I bet you look at prize trees too, Willie, and ask yourself, "Now if I was going to cut that....." It's a sickness.

 

[Al Smith]

I always figured the least noble use of a tree is firewood . Looking back if I only had 10 percent of the good lumber logs I had sliced for firewood I would be a rich man .

 

[sotc]

'fraid so. I bet you look at prize trees too, Willie, and ask yourself, "Now if I was going to cut that....." It's a sickness.

I'm no wood worker but i'm always wrecking trees in my mind even as I drive down the road. "Hmmm, how would I work that part out?..."

 

[flushcut]

'fraid so. I bet you look at prize trees too, Willie, and ask yourself, "Now if I was going to cut that....." It's a sickness.

I think it is respect for nature not so much a sickness.