She takes away some of the beauty of the piece by her accompanying statement suggesting that 19th-century artists had a hand in the devastation of forests when they engaged in the common practice of painting scenes on logs as she has done.
By the nineteenth century, this adverse influence became quite pronounced: man-made meadows appeared where the forest had been cut down, there was a recession of the forests at higher altitudes, and this devastation of the forest was coupled with widespread soil erosion (Ciurzycki 2003, 82).
I feel the foolhardiness again in Yellowstone National Park, where the bleak devastation of 1988 forest fires creates an otherworldly backdrop to blue mists rising from hot springs and geysers.
The White House finalized a rule making it even easier for coal mining companies to dump the remains of mountaintop removal operations into streams and valleys, paving the way for further devastation of Appalachian forests and river systems.
In an open letter to Tom Clausen, the bank's president, he told him to "stop financing the destruction of the tropical world, the devastation of its remaining forests, the extermination of its wildlife, and the impoverishment and starvation of its human inhabitants".
Both of these uses caused large devastation of the native forests.
The losses included the total devastation of several large swaths of forest and swamp in the Congo and in New Guinea.
For most of his life, Mendes fought against the devastation of the Amazon rain forest.
Meanwhile, in a forest in Maharashtra, the Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh is living in a tree for a month to protest coal mining's devastation of biodiversity and the displacement of forest communities.
