Roger Swain Quote

People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard.... You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.

Field days: journal of an itinerant biologist (ed. Macmillan Reference USA, 1983)

People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree...

People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree...

People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree...

People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree...