Pine Woods Lumber

Famous quotes containing the words pine, woods and/or lumber:

    “Lodgepole
    coneseed waits for fire
    And then thin forests of silver-grey.
    in the void
    a pine cone falls”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
    With loads of learned lumber in his head.
    With his own tongue still edifies his ears,
    And always listening to himself appears.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)