American Chestnut Quotes

“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance?”
― Susan Freinkel, American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

“This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.”
― Susan Freinkel, American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree