Timber Quotes

• Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

  J. Willard Marriott

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Good timber does not grow with ease:
  The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
  The further sky, the greater length;
  The more the storm, the more the strength.
  By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
  In trees and men good timbers grow.

  Douglas Malloch

  Rain, Men, Wind

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• Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspiration, Intelligent, Aging

  "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, ch. VI, 1858.

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• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

  Immanuel Kant

  Humanity, Made, Crooked

  "Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

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• I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

  Frank Murkowski

  Believe, Healthy, Environmental

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• Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

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• Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.

  Gary Zukav

  Cutting, Tree, Personality

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

  Samuel Johnson

  Progress, Seeds, Intervals

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• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Voice, Rivers

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• To carry timber into the wood.
  [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

  Horace

  Woods, Labor

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• I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.439, Yale University Press

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• Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Tree, Moisture, Texture

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter X "Highland and Lowland Fir", Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

  Carl Andre

  Block, Space, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Climate, Environment, Hotter

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• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

  Isaiah Berlin

  Humanity, Made, Crooked

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• It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

  John Millington Synge

  Strong, Roots, Clay

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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• The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got it share of rain, never became a forest king but lived and died a scrubby thing. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger wind, the stronger trees.

  Douglas Malloch

  Kings, Rain, Fighting

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• 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 tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Japan, Earthquakes

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• She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

  David Almond

  Garden, Glasses, Voice

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• The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

  Hesiod

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Land, Yield

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• 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 heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  Seamus Heaney

  Strong, Tree, Heaven

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• 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 translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

  Harry Seidler

  America, Migration, Abundance

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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