Timber Quotes

81 quotes by 75 authors

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees — J. Willard Marriott
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments. — Chris Kilham
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60,… — Rex Tillerson
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. — Immanuel Kant
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth… — William Henry Ashley
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 timber… — Bruce Babbitt
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of… — William Henry Ashley
It's going down, I'm yelling timber You better move, you better dance Let's make a night you won't remember I'll be the one you won't… — Pitbull Ft Kesha
Keep calm and timber — Natalya Johnson
Right time, the right place The right body, the right face Timber I'm falling in love — Maddie_b
Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods. — Horace
Then came the day at the bottom of the mine when a timber cracked and the men started craying. Miners were praying and hearts beat… — Jimmy Cliff
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a grown and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone. — Jimmy Cliff
Persistence Is The Hands That Make A Huge Timber Of Many Toothpicks... — Pacifiersucker
In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and naked… — John Wesley Powell
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada, timber wolves, creeks, snow drifts. — Dan Aykroyd
They have thus dammed all the larger lakes, raising their broad surfaces many feet ... thus turning the forces of nature against herself, that they… — Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862)
Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild, But when they meet, it makes the timber rot; It frets the halter, and it… — Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?_1618)

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