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.…