Timber Quotes - Page 4

• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Pride, Reality

  "Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1990.

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Animal

  "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

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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 lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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• You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

  S. E. Hinton

  Brother, New York, Together

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Penguin

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• The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Support

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  Gary Larson

  Loss, Ecosystems, Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

  Jane Goodall

  Japan, America, Germany

  Interview with Jo Menell, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

  Angus Stone

  Writing, Creative, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

  Mark Carwardine

  Wine, Rhinos, Issues

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• Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

  John Muir

  Garden, Government, Tree

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Great West Books

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• The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Land, Government

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• [W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.

  Madison Grant

  Rivers, Eels, Unqualified

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• Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

  Peter Heller

  Night, Life And Death, Waiting

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.68, Vintage

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• It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

  George Eliot

  Men, Intellectual, Intelligence

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

  William Shenstone

  Friendship, Passion, Tree

  William Shenstone (1765). “Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.142

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• Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

  Immanuel Kant

  Humanity, Als, Made

  'Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht' (1784) proposition 6

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• There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

  Paul Ryan

  Crush, Jobs, Coal Miners

  "Big Ag Just Got A Big, Wet Kiss From Paul Ryan" by Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.

  John Muir

  Uncles, Crazy, Land

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.607, e-artnow

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• The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Wheat, Milk

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.

  Rick Carlisle

  Running, Years, Tree

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• We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Army, Oil, Water

  Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.306, New Canadian Library

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• Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Punishment, Remember, Ends

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• I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Wall, Book, Fire

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.27, Penguin

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• Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW…Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!

  Darryl Cherney

  Believe, Environmental, Allies

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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