Ethan Tapper > Quotes

“The loggers were not alone: everywhere, people used their power to exploit the earth’s damaged ecosystems rather than to save them, to seek their own freedom at the expense of their children’s.”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“It was not until I became a forester until I saw the pervasive and troubling impacts of deer on forests, that I picked up my old rifle and became a hunter again.”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“The light on the mountain has changed. While I still see the wounds that riddle the body of this forest, I now find sparks of hope and beauty. I see a forest fighting to discover itself inside of this moment. I know the feeling”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“I think of my species, the billions of people living at the grace of a finite planet spinning through cavernous space. We have arisen from ecosystems to become a force primal and earthshaking... We teeter on an unsteady foundation, moving into an uncertain future together.”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“At a time when forests’ best hope for the future lies in diversity, adaptability, and resilience, too much deer browse makes forests less diverse, less adaptable, and less resilient; it encourages infestations of nonnative invasive plants and degrades habitat for other wildlife species, from bears to butterflies.”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“Because a buck can mate with multiple does, killing a buck does little to affect the deer population; lowering the deer population means killing does, an act that many hunters have long considered taboo.”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“Could we learn to see freedom as a responsibility as much as a right? Could we learn to see that the true purpose”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“Freedom is not apportioned equally, is not democratic, not diverse, not representative.”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

“In the forest of our world”
― Ethan Tapper, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World