Note 59 — Chapter XXXV · OUR “HOME-MOUNTAINS” THE SERRANÍA DE RONDA

Pinsápo timber is fairly hard, but too “knotty” for general purposes, and it is useless for charcoal. Yet these glorious forests are being sacrificed wholesale because the wood affords “good kindling” for the charcoal-furnace—can wasteful wantonness further go? That the only existing forests of the kind on earth should be ruthlessly destroyed for no single object but to provide kindling passes understanding.