International Tropical Timber Agreement

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

    “Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
    —Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)

    “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)

    “That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)