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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Davy Crockett

Normally, for timber, you plant in the wintertime because that way you have a lot of natural moisture, six months of, hopefully, rainfall to develop a growth system so it can make it through the summer.

Charles Long

They're headquartered very close to our headquarters, their businesses fit very well with ours - big printing papers business, an important wood and timber business - they've got a nice, nice position in Brazil, as well as a position in Canada.

John Dillon

David gives us guidance. We had a clear-cut 10 years ago. We had nine bids from $60,000 to almost $200,000. If we had just gone in the middle, say $100,000, you see how much money we would have lost. I wouldn't think about making a timber sale without a forester. I would say that's the biggest benefit. You get good, free advice from the North Carolina Forest Service, too.

Hayes Harbour

The color is distinguishable on trees, grass, brush and timber.

George Hall

Live oak in the age of wooden ships was the best available ship timber; it is strong and dense and more importantly it grows in gentle curves that are almost analogous to the frames in a ship's structure. So it's really excellent material for shipbuilding.

Quentin Snediker

I've talked to (Ringo) a couple of times. He's concerned with undue influence by the timber industry on the work that the college does. He's concerned with my personal political involvement, in regard to helping develop forest legislation.

Hal Salwasser

Faith has numbers and good athletes. Timber Lake and McIntosh will also put together good teams.

Wally Stephens

Divide a section up from one industrial owner to 16 new owners (of 40-acre tracts) and you have a bunch of driveways and cabins and new roads and lights. It affects wildlife. It affects timber management. You lose the connectivity.

Tom Duffus

Lyme Timber is really thinking about conservation -- they really want that to happen. Lyme Timber is exceptional on this.

David Houghton

There's not much out here. All we have is land. We don't have a big river running through our reservation, or timber. Any kind of development would be better than what's here.

Leon Bear

I always take a lot of extra care checking my saddle and blanket. As you're going through timber down the trail, you're going to pick up pine needles and stuff. You don't want your animal to get saddle sore.

Jeff Brandt

If we had the timber supply we had in the past we'd be operating with full employment like we had in the past and there would be no change in our operations.

Dennis Scott

Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

In this case, we have dead timber that is degrading as it sits on the stump. A big effort is under way to access as much as can be handled by the system while at the same time, plant trees on the cutover lands to ensure that the new crop is established.

John Mclean

This is basically a large timber sale project being devised in such a way as to approve it with less oversight. What we're seeing is part of a pattern of abuse, and it's almost solely on the Panhandle.

Jonathan Oppenheimer

They are cutting the mountain cattlemen out, they are always closing more of the timber industry down. There is a lot of hypocrisy in what they are doing here.

Bob Richardson

That's our intention, to harvest the timber. If someone would sit on it, they would be in breach of the contract.

Rick Jandreau

My grandmother has about 400 acres of land; 120 to 130 of it is timber acres. We'd like to start burning it.

Marc Miller

All we have ever asked for is open and competitive Canadian markets for timber and logs.

Barry Cullen

He's the greatest all-around player ever at Timber Creek. He might not be the best shooter or the best scorer but adding everything together, he's the greatest. He will be missed.

Garry Saunders

This timber project directly conflicts with the purpose of National Monument status. Judge Breyer's decision helps ensure that the Giant Sequoia Monument will be protected and can continue to inspire visitors for generations to come.

Pat Gallagher

There are still people who want us to produce something, ... Sustainable timber harvesting, environmentally compliant mineral extraction. Mining is a net gainer in the tax situation.

Brad Little

If you own the land, you have a long-term investment with more security that the timber will be there over the years. If you let it go and it goes to other uses, you'll never get it back.

David Larsen

Timber Creek's guards are athletic but young. So we weren't necessarily trying to take the ball off of them, just confuse them so they made mistakes.

Al Dyer

The mulch that is sold at Lowe's comes from known sources, not storm wood or blown down timber.

Karen Cobb

We are seeing this pine beetle do things that have never been recorded before. They are attacking younger trees and attacking timber in altitudes they have never been before.

Michael Pelchat

Sumitomo Forestry believes utilization of domestic timber is our mission.

Ryu Yano

We've taken our timely raw-material timber-pricing data to the next level, which will ultimately help our customers make better business decisions. We're the only company in the forest and wood-products industry that has been able to collect this level of raw-material data. We believe it will revolutionize timber-price forecasting and planning.

Pete Stewart

We're talking about a proposal that impacts 40 to 50 million acres and they're trying to ram it through in nine months when a simple proposal with 100 acres, with a timber sale, can take two to three years.

Chris West

Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because of the heavier timber fuels and the likelihood that homes will be threatened by any fire that grows this large. A 4,000-acre fire is a huge fire in this region.

Bill Rose

Timber companies will be forced to respect the law, and to exploit the rainforest only in a manner that is sustainable.

Paulo Adario

[Although much of the downed timber is on private land, Odom is hoping to get federal approval to process much of it in sawmills. But the future of the wind-scoured forests] is my big concern, ... It'll take 30 years to replace most of those trees. Losing that resource hurts us bad.

Bob Odom

Faith and Timber Lake are always strong. Lemmon is new to the conference and is an unknown for us. We should be competitive enough to be in the hunt.

Wally Stephens

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

Immanuel Kant

They are kind of hard to control, but again they don't burn as hot as heavy timber.

Mary Zabinski

The harvest of timber on federal land has been reduced to a quarter of what it once was. There is a direct correlation between lack of management and the fuel loads that have built up and the situation we are seeing today.

Matt Raymond

We would like people who will judiciously manage the forests and ensure the nation remains self-sufficient in its timber requirements.

Cde Nhema

This is a pretty major offensive to rewrite national forest management laws on behalf of the timber industry.

Sean Cosgrove

I'm always cautious to downplay range fires, because if it's your ranch building or grazing allotment that got burned up it's pretty important. But timber fires require a lot more people, equipment, time and money to put out, and so far even when we've had lightning ignition, we didn't get the large fire initiation.

Tom Wordell

We've got $1.3 billion worth of timber put on the ground in one day in southeast Mississippi. The state has been under a burn ban for the last month. We desperately need this rain.

Glenn Hughes

This would be a policy change for tribal government. We could take commercial-size timber from the buffer zone as part of a fire management project.

Stephen Mcdonald

Roadbuilding simply paves the way for logging, mining and other kinds of resource extraction, ... Far too much of our national forests have been trammeled and overlogged because of the maze of logging roads that have been bulldozed over the years by timber companies.

Bill Lockyer

The timber joists collapsed and fell right on the photo department.

Irina Gevorkyan

We're anticipating that fires in some large timber stands won't be out until the first snowfall.

Michelle Barret

We can't work when it is windy. We haven't worked in five days. It is not safe to be in the timber when it is windy.

Richard Ball

We understand that applies to timber harvesting. So we are OK there.

Joe Stanhope

We are trying to get hold of the costs and expenses. We don't want to rely on timber.

Jack Mathers

Unless we get an injunction, we can proceed with the timber sale process.

Rick Jandreau

Right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!'

Charlotte Ayanna

The timber people look forward to coming here.

Chris Wagner

Horses are slower, there's no doubt about that. And the guys with the horses can only make money on certain types of cutting. It has to be high valuable timber for them to make enough money to do it.

Robert Strong

Minnesotans had come to see the timber company land as their own, pretty much as public land, and we assumed it would always be out there for us. Now, it's getting sold off and developed. This has kind of caught us by surprise.

Ron Nargang

Trees are falling, ... There is no real timber value. So, the city is going to have to go in and cut and remove the trees at a cost.

Jeff Hardin

You don't find much presidential timber in New York because the soil is polluted with machine politics, ... Unlimited incumbency and almost unlimited patronage breed grubby politicians. But Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani cut in line to win here without paying dues to the spoils system.

Nelson Warfield

The problem is we have a timber pile bridge in a sandy channel.

Jeff Weiss

Once the timber has been supplied everything will move very quickly.

Eric Morris

Timber left down, particularly snapped trees, rapidly degrades in quality and loses considerable value in the first 60 to 90 days.

Eric Taylor

The Forest Service owns 69 percent of all merchantable timber in Montana. They own the good saw logs.

Ed Regan