The Attitude Towards Trees

The main information to be disseminated concerns the chemical nature of photosynthesis it produces oxygen, something that many people know. It simultaneously traps carbon dioxide, removing it from the environment. This is something that is not always part of common awareness, and public 

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Figure 1.2 A similar attitude towards trees. In South Africa some persons considered that the high number of weavers nests on top of a tall tree made the tree look untidy. Those persons managed to get the 50-year-old large tree (more than 1 metre diameter) chopped down, although the location was within a biodiversity preserve.

The difference between a sickle and a scythe, tools that solve the same problem, can reflect both the types of crops grown and harvested and the attitudes of the society toward the crop and harvesting. The differences between the saws of Japanese and European carpenters reflect different traditions of woodworking and attitudes about the use of wood in the two societies. Early English settlers in North America built frame houses that required the establishment and operation of saw pits that were very laborious. Frame houses were thriftier with trees than were the log houses built by Scandinavian settlers. The buildings reflected different attitudes about the value of labor and timber, attitudes that probably reflected differential access to trees in England and Scandinavia. 

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