20 Timber Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Took Born Voice Poetry River Between Town Like Hill Timber Up Itself Forests Grew

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant

Man Made Nothing Out Carved Crooked Entirely Timber Which Straight

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march. William Henry Ashley

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths. Andy Rourke

Work Job First Bass Back Joined First Job Yard Timber Wagon Off Up Selling Very Then Pop Amp Save

In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it. Blake Lively

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do. Bruce Babbitt

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

Environmental Healthy Believe Environment Firmly Industry Healthy Environment Timber Sustainable

Japan's 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 Earth Earthquakes Resulted Lightweight Well Frequent Buildings Climate Timber Off Japan Warm Ground Raised Resistant

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

Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes. Johan Eliasch

Better Big Extraction Local Harvest Reliable More Protected Access Timber Perpetuity Provides Providing Forest Expense Unfettered Communities Incomes Profits

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. John Muir

Citizen Half Dust Hundred One Act States Could Take Obtain Well Timber Been Dollars Up Stone Any Sixty Which Title Ashes Land Might Acre Acres Act Paying United United States Two

One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide. Magnus Larsson

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

If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air. Matt Rosendale

Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover. Paul Engle

Country Changes Eastern Constant Winding Small Scene Crowded Catfish Hills Iowa Opinion Hover Timber Lot Contrary Handsome Rolling Where Flat Little Pools Much Landscape Full Imaginative

You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around. Peter Zumthor

You Building Energy Skin Cold Other Way Solid Steal Hot Glass Feel Feels Veneer House Around Concrete Timber Effect Than Same Heat Wood Certain Body Your Your Body Certain Way Cooler

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. Rex Tillerson

Natural People Picture Become Energy Difficulty Enormity Took Some About More Crude Crude Oil Consumption Takes New Most Sheer Coming Timber Came Source Years Dominant Oil Energy Consumption Natural Gas Breakthrough Grips Then Coal Displace Found Gas

We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires. Richard Ojeda

People Become Extracted State Our Everything Our People Those Out Colony Remained Outside Had Come Industries Timber Been Get Poor Worked Really Coal Billionaires Ever Here

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