Famous quotes containing the words fence, cutting and/or wars:
“One fence needs three stakes; one able fellow needs three helpers.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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)
“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)