As soon as you remove a piece of wood from the forest and cut a couple of straight lines on it, the quality of the wood changes dramatically. It becomes more"useful" as building material, in a certain relation with other elements of human artifice, but it also begins its decline into "trash."
A rotting board of lumber sitting on the forest floor doesn't look too good; it looks like garbage, because it looks out of place with its perfectly straight lines, even though it will decompose anyway. And it is garbage.
That same exact piece of lumber, before it was altered, as a fallen or shattered tree, in the form of a stump, cut off round, or a large fallen branch looks perfectly fine lying in the forest. Untouched, it may not be very useful, but it looks like it belongs there, even as it decomposes, as alas, that is what trees occasionally do. And indeed, it adds to the beauty of the forest's landscape.
