“She knows Con’s habits, piling on turf and logs, mad for the big blaze, reckless with firewood like there was no tomorrow.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we… — Ernest Poole Copy Share Image
You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and… — R. K. Laxman Copy Share Image
Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
“Just so you know,” he mimics me, “I would chop that table up and use it for firewood before I would ever… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
You may be standing in front of a huge stack of firewood. Without a spark it doesn't have much of a chance… — El Haji Nero Copy Share Image
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil… — Richard Pombo Copy Share Image
During my high-school and community-college years in western Michigan, I sold firewood to supplement my meager income from on-again, off-again construction work. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat… — Chretien de Troyes Copy Share Image
Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food,… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood… — Maneka Gandhi Copy Share Image
The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image