Monty Don Quotes

The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50 or 60 times. It is one of the most perfectly sustainable resources and ecosystems known to man.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

Every acre of forest should belong to the people.

There is more old growth forest today in California today than there was in 1850. The Indians had destroyed most of them.

In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.

Loggers and mills in Maine and across the country deserve fair trade policies and more support from our federal government.

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

Maine's lumber and forest products industry is key to our state's economy and supports thousands of jobs across the state.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.

If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air.

a culture is no better than its woods

We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.