Sap-thirsty ax-jack to tree hugger
A personal transition
It is of no credit to any man that he was a pioneer,
unless his axe was laid at the root of some tree.
Augustus H. Gansser, 1905
History of Bay County, Michigan
In my life I have gone from feeling sap-thirsty about chopping down trees to now wanting to hug and hang around them.
In my youth I was sap-thirsty the way war makes some men blood-thirsty.…
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