Values Deep in the Woods
— American Forests, 1988

Values Deep in the Woods, American Forests 94, no. 5 and 6 (May/June 1988): 33, 66-69. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37118

In a forest, as on a desert or the tundra, the realities of nature cannot be ignored. The forest is an archetype of the foundations of the world. Humans evolved in forests and savannas, and classical cultures often remained in contact with forests. In modern cultures, the growth of technology has made the forest increasingly a commodity, decreasingly an archetype. That results in profound value puzzlements. What values lie deep in the forest?

Reprinted in Peter C. List, ed., Environmental Ethics and Forestry: A Reader (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), pages 75-79.