International Tropical Timber Agreement

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, timber and/or agreement:

    We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.
    Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

    The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are made grew but yesterday in a wilderness where the Indian still hunts and the moose runs wild.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
    Karl Kraus (1874–1936)