“Societies can build their entire economies around trees: economies that are much better for people at large, and infinitely more sustainable, than anything we have at present. Trees could indeed stand at the heart of all the world’s economics and politics, just as they are at the centre of all terrestrial ecology. In the future of humanity, and of all the world in all its aspects, trees are key players.”

Colin Tudge in The Secret Life of Trees, 2005

“Steel was the construction material of the 19th century and concrete the construction material of the 20th century. Timber is the construction material of the 21st century”.

Alex de Rijk, Expert in Modern design Concepts, UK Architects Journal Conference, London

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