Cut down a tree to keep warm.
Cut down a forest to make paper
for extraneous advertising
to sell extraneous gadgets.
The gadgets are a transformation
of something from a natural
to an unnatural state.
They cannot create new life.
They become images lost in time.
The people find this out.
They tire of them.
The earth is a potential paradise, but man is turning it
into a noisy, smelly, poisonous sump hole.
And even as he is told what is happening, or sees
what is happening, he does little else than make
excuses and show a niggardly helplessness.
He sees his degenerate way of life as something
progressive and necessary. He sees it also as
inevitable.
He devises every means of tolerating it and
conditions his thinking to its acceptance.
Far Beyond Words 