Best Wood Wisdom
738 Wood quotes by 578 unique authors
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While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental…
— Unknown Author
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Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.
— Unknown Author
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Boys need wood to chop.
— Unknown Author
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I think a new, different kind of bowling should be "carpet bowling." It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood.…
— Jack Handey
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Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November,…
— Donald Hall
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from…
— Jack Kevorkian
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Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.
— Peter Kreeft
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records
— Duncan Sheik
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Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations…
— Arthur Erickson
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Christ is of two natures, the human and the divine, and we are the same: we are of the human nature, but covered with the…
— Witness Lee
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And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a…
— Pablo Neruda
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The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it…
— Mark Vonnegut
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And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a…
— Paul Elie
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur…
— Ansel Adams
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That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy…
— Artie Shaw
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the…
— Roland Barthes
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Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
— Alexander Hamilton
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We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
— Laozi
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours…
— Lord Dunsany
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Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors,…
— Jack Gilbert
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The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the…
— Federico Tesio
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I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a…
— Junior Johnson
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