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 primitive wood is always and everywhere damp and mossy, so that I traveled constantly with the impression that I was in a swamp; and only when it was remarked that this or that tract, judging from the quality of the timber on it, would make a profitable clearing, was I reminded, that if the sun were let in it would make a dry field, like the few I had seen, at once.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I for one do not agree.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)