Famous quotes containing the words pine, lumber and/or company:
“Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics; that is selvaggia, and the inhabitants are salvages. A civilized man, using the word in the ordinary sense, with his ideas and associations, must at length pine there, like a cultivated plant, which clasps its fibres about a crude and undissolved mass of peat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“To drive Paul out of any lumber camp
All that was needed was to say to him,
How is the wife, Paul? and hed disappear.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“In your company a man could die, I said, a man could die and you wouldnt even notice, theres no trace of friendship, a man could die in your company.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)
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