“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
George Berkeley (1685–1753) Anglo-Irish philosopher
“Overmature trees: In timber company and Forest Service lingo, trees which may live in splendor for another 500 years, but which would make damned fine boards today.”
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 161.
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