Famous quotes containing the words woods, lumber and/or company:
“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled a contemplative mans recreation, introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalists observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative mans recreation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Then cut down the trees when lumber grown,
And theres your pristine earth all freed
From lovely blooming but wasteful weed
And ready again for the grass to own.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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