SN6LEAP The Enlightened Forest Limited Edition Art Print"The Enlightened Forest" is based on the writings of James D. Petersen, editior of "Evergreen," a bi-monthly forestry journal published by the Evergreen Foundation.Petersen first wrote about the enlightened forest in a 1991 "Evergreen" article titled, "The Sense of a Goose." In it, he described an imaginary place called "The Enlightened Forest".. a place where people solve their environmental problems on the basis of what they know; not what they fear. "We think the general public knows very well what The Enlightened Forest looks like," Petersen wrote. "There are stands of timber which the public will harvest, because the public wants wood, because wood is strong and renewable and aesthetically pleasing. There are also wilderness byways which will never be harvested, except by nature because the public wants wilderness, because in wilderness there is beauty; peace and mystery." In February, 1992 Petersen asked artist, Ken Brauner if he could turn his writings into a painting so that people could see what the enlightened forest might look like. The result is this painting, appropriately titled, "The Enlightened Forest," which chronicles the blessings that flow from forestry's partnership with nature. Of this painting, Petersen later wrote, "We can never know all there is to know about The Enlightened Forest; and not everyone will see this forest exactly as Ken Brauner painted it; but if we who are concerned about forest grow a management philosphy first - one that spans the distance between the ideal and the real - it will be much easier to grow the threes and other things we want and need from The Enlightened Forest. What Ken Brauner has done is put people, and forestry, back into the environmental equation, so we can all see what is possible." |
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