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Letter "T" » timber
«Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built»
«Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.»
Author: John Muir
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Keywords:
civilized,
fountains,
Going Home,
irrigate,
irrigates,
mountain,
necessity,
nerve,
parked,
Parks,
reservation,
Reservations,
rivers,
River Went,
shaken,
the Mountain,
Thousands,
timber,
timbered,
timbers,
tired,
useful,
wildness
«Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.»
«Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, / Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.»
«Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.»
«The timber wolves will be our friends.We'll stay up late and howl,At the moon, till nighttime ends,Before going on the prowl.»
Author: Bill Watterson
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Author)
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Keywords:
howl,
howled,
howls,
nighttime,
prowl,
prowling,
prowls,
stay up,
The Howling,
The Moon,
timber,
timbered,
timbers,
wolves
«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
collected,
dry rot,
here and there,
liable,
luxuriant,
man of science,
moss,
mosses,
public works,
rot,
sprout,
sprouting,
timber,
yards