The future of forestry lies in balancing economic needs with ecological responsibility.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.