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)

    “This fellow will but join you together as they join
    wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and
    like green timber warp, warp.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)