"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the……" — Thomas Edison

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house… - Thomas Edison

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

— Thomas Edison

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More Chopping Quotes

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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one… — Henry David Thoreau
When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better… — Colin Mochrie
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid,… — Sally Struthers
Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of… — Toni Morrison
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block… — Pete Rose
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a… — Craig Claiborne
After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward… — Stephen M. Irwin
Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree. — George Washington
As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard.… — David Ogilvy
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It… — Helen Garner
I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please;… — Dr. Seuss

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