Cutting Down Quotes - Page 2

• A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspiring, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Cutting, Tree

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• I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Cutting, Rejection

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

  Eric Snow

  Cutting, Opportunity, Snow

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• The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Jobs, Cutting, Best Job

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• Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Spring, Cutting

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• There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

  Antonis Samaras

  Cutting, Tunnels, Light

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Cutting, Conducting, Composing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.

  Helen Chenoweth-Hage

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

  Bocafloja

  Cutting, Exercise, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.

  Rob Delaney

  Cutting, People, Tree

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