Timber Quotes

81 quotes by 75 authors

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible… — Henry David Thoreau
Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded. — Ferdinand von Mueller
A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They're… — Stephen Colbert
We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both… — Aldo Leopold
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a… — Brian Aldiss
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly… — Harry Seidler
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made — Isaiah Berlin
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. — Frank Murkowski
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed… — Loren Eiseley
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives. — George Herbert
Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth… — Harry Seidler
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between… — Seamus Heaney
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the… — Bruce Chatwin
Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it… — Darryl Cherney
Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry! — Darryl Cherney
I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess… — Jesse H. Jones
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh
We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you… — Wendell Berry
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the… — Loren D. Estleman

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