Timber

Famous quotes containing the word timber:

“This fellow will but join you together as they join
wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and
like green timber warp, warp.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

“Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)