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.
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".
For most of his life, Mendes fought against the devastation of the Amazon rain forest.
If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears.
In the Himalayan region of Swat in north Pakistan, my Torwali friend Mujahid told me of the devastation of the ancient deodar forests by the Taliban when they overran his valley in 2008-9.
This reality is worsened, of course, with the devastation of our planet's forests, such as in the Amazon River and the Congo River basins--as I know intimately through my work with the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network.
Seeking a solution to a conflict between loggers, who claimed clear-cutting helped increase the water content of the snowpack, which replenishes Lake Tahoe, and those who bridled at the devastation of Tahoe's magnificent pine forests, he came up with the sampler in 1906.
As of early March, the waters had dropped enough to reveal the devastation of what had been their food forest.
Traditionally, foresters have viewed the devastation of a hurricane or tornado as a mess of mangled lumber to be cleaned up, rather than as a natural part of a forest's life.
