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O Eucalipto: um século no Brasil (The Eucalypt - Celso Foelkel

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No seu livro “O Problema Florestal <strong>no</strong> <strong>Brasil</strong>”, o pesquisador analisou o clima reinante, na<br />

época, com relação ao eucalipto: “Mais <strong>um</strong>a vez teve a crítica indígena ensejo de mostrar<br />

o seu acrisolado patriotismo ao censurar a empresa paulista por deixar de lado centenas<br />

de essencias florestaes patricias, brasileiras das raízes às folhas, para dar preferencia para<br />

<strong>um</strong>a intrusa, filha de longincuas plagas, e que, <strong>no</strong> seu entender encyclopedico, para nada<br />

valia! Chegamos a recear <strong>um</strong>a lei de expulsão para os eucalyptos e ella teria sido votada,<br />

certamente, se dahi pudessem advir benefícios para as <strong>no</strong>ssas industrias artificiaes”,<br />

afirma Navarro.<br />

Então como agora, o despeito crítico não prevaleceu. Na obra “O <strong>Eucalypt</strong>o” ele defendeu<br />

sua escolha, passou a fazer artigos para os jornais e contou que plantara “o maior número<br />

possível de espécies, com o propósito de experimentá-las com o máximo rigor científico”.<br />

Relatou como era extremamente vagaroso o crescimento de quase todas as árvores nativas,<br />

principalmente as famosas pela qualidade de suas madeiras. Enfatizou que seu trabalho<br />

era para <strong>um</strong>a companhia particular, “que tinha como escopo criar florestas capazes de<br />

fornecerem definidos e determinados produtos” em prazo curto. Concluiu dizendo que<br />

não seria viável nem razoável para quem precisava de madeira “para combustível, estacas,<br />

toras, postes e dormentes, plantar árvores cuja utilização poderia somente ser feita <strong>um</strong><br />

<strong>século</strong> depois”.<br />

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Casa de Navarro de Andrade, em Rio Claro/SP.<br />

In his book, titled “O Problema Florestal <strong>no</strong> <strong>Brasil</strong>” (<strong>The</strong> Forest Problem in Brazil), the<br />

researcher analyzed the predominating weather of the time with regards to eucalypt:<br />

“Once again the native criticism attempted to surface its refined patriotism by censoring<br />

the São Paulo company for ig<strong>no</strong>ring hundreds of Brazilian forest species, from<br />

roots to leaves, in favor of an intruder, the daughter of distant plagues and, in their<br />

encyclopedic understanding of things, worthless! We actually feared a bill would be<br />

passed to expel eucalypt, and it would clearly have been voted on if that could result in<br />

benefits for our artificial industries,” said Navarro.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, as <strong>no</strong>w, the critical resentment did <strong>no</strong>t prevail. In the book “O <strong>Eucalypt</strong>o”, he<br />

defended his choice and started writing articles for the newspapers and said he had<br />

planted “the largest possible amount of species in order to experiment with them under<br />

the strictest scientific criteria.”<br />

He reported on how slowly most native trees grew, especially those that were famed for<br />

the quality of their wood. He emphasized his work was for a private company “whose<br />

scope was to create forests capable of providing certain types of products” on the short<br />

term. He concluded by saying it wasn’t viable or even reasonable for someone who<br />

needed wood “for fuel, piles, logs, posts and sleepers, to plant trees that could only be<br />

used a century later.”

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