木与人类文明

 综述了木对人类自然科学和人文科学形成发展的作用和贡献。从人类发展进程、工具产生条件和相关历史证据看,史前人类木器时代是客观存在的,在进入石器时代以前,人类经历了一个漫长的木器时代。木与人类相伴的历史最为久远,人们与木相关的实践活动最为普遍和广泛,木对人类自然科学和人文科学的形成发展做出了无与伦比的贡献。借鉴人类过去的历史,“木”之道可望成为解决当前人类面临的粮食、能源和环境三大危机的重要途径。

Wood and human civilization

From where comes the human civilization and to where it goes? This is both a serious philosophical proposition and a social issue for every person on the earth to pay attention to. In the present paper, the existence of the prehistoric "wood age" is discussed firstly, then the contributions of wood to the Natural Sciences and the Humane Studies are comprehensively analyzed, and finally, the three global problems of food, energy and environment for the mankind are discussed at the angle of "wood". From the mankind development process, the tool formation conditions and the related other historical evidences, it is concluded that the existence of the prehistoric "wood age" is an objective fact, and the mankind had experienced a very long "wood age" before entering into the stone age. Wood has companied our human activities for the longest time, and accordingly, the activities of human beings related with wood should be the most widespread, and wood has greatly contributed to the formation and the development of the natural sciences and the humane studies. Drawing lessons from the past history, wood science and technology could be expected to be possible ways to solve the present food, energy and environment problems.