In the Western tradition, of which we are a part, the use of wood for warmth goes back deep into history.

Foreward: Over two thousand years ago, Plato said, "Field and forest will teach me nothing, but men do."

Preface: As man moves ever further from a genuine intimacy with nature and becomes ever more enmeshed in the frightening web of his own creation, the compensatory laws of psychic necessity bring forth individuals sensitive to the perils of the reality of this life in the modern world, and who in their own lives begin to stumble upon and are drawn into communion with the spirits of nature.