Absolutely no problem! I didn't find your comment derogatory in any way.

This just happens to be one of the themes I've been thinking over the years. Especially here in Finland, 'the land of the green gold'. In post war years, a single generation saw the country rising from poverty to well-being, ultimately to the golden era of Nokia, being in top five countries when measuring education, equality, stability, happiness etc. And we are often told that the success was based on metal and paper industries. But, paper industry wants pulp, so the whole chain of forestry has been geared towards producing quantity. Personally, I feel that while valuing forests as our national treasure, we have sacrificed quality over quantity. And that is somewhat sad.

Oh well. But maybe I'll write a series of blog posts about these themes, some time in the summer if I get to wander around taking pictures of different kinds of woodlands, picturing the impact of different methods of forestry.