Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of…

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in…

— Ruth Pitter

“I suppose we haven’t lost more than two days by my short cut through the Forest! But perhaps the delay will prove useful –…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw…

— Bruce Babbitt

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that…

— Charles de Lint

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few…

— E. O. Wilson

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go…

— Woody Harrelson

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

— Susan George

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

— Thomas Jefferson

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

— Isaac Asimov

Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

— J. B. Morton

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs,…

— Dian Fossey

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on…

— Will Rogers

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

— Miyamoto Musashi

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a…

— Quentin S. Crisp