Zacharias Papantoniou

“ We make cars out of it, furniture, boxes, barrels, oars, baskets, books.
With this wood we make thousands of things, heavy and light, from the biggest to the smallest; from the boat mast to tiny wooden spikes to staple our shoes. ”

“ The hydraulic saw worked like a mill. Water fell from a pipe and by its own power it displaced a big straight saw. All the trunks which the woodcutters cut in the forest were brought here. The saw cut them and made lumber: planks, sleepers, beams.
What a large quantity of wood there was here! It had been stacked in great piles; continually the saw cut and continually the woodcutters brought more.
A small branch comes out of the ground and in forty, fifty years, it give these great beams.
What good things all this wood gives to men! We make houses out of it, boats, churches, bridges. ”