The forest needs wholeness, in its thinking. It consists of many trees of many species and age groups. It needs its beauty. That's what turns me on. We've lost a huge amount of forests in this country and globally.
Forests are, in large part, the way the earth breathes.
The marketplace doesn't count any of those things into its thinking. We must admire and credit nature's services. The gist of the book comes from a separate economics study, which says that something like 34 trillion dollars of nature's services are used every year. There is no program to pay nature back. Before too long, nature will say your credit is no damn good.