Famous quotes containing the words fence, cutting and/or wars:
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery. Nothing else holds fashion.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)