Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.

I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.

It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable[…]