Best Cutting Down Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”

People Ifs Knows Home Animal Roles Cutting Planets Breaths Incredibles Critical Forests Elephants Lungs Our Planet Cutting Down Woods And Forests Orangutans

Author:Chris Noth

“At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.”

People Knows Mean Energy Cutting Negative Regions Cords Negative Energy Pickups Cutting Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.”

People Ifs Humans Use Animal Millions Cutting Materials Waste Areas Increase Plant Billions Forests Soil Agriculture Acres Manure Cutting Down

Author:Norman Borlaug

“The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.”

Needs Should Humans Persons Made Values Realizing Cutting Tree Fields Deserve Cat Reactions Forests Treated Made It Old Lady Firewood Cutting Down

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.”

Knows Mind Made Change Cutting Painting Boat Drastic Cutting Down Drastic Change

Author:E. J. Hughes

“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”

“There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.”

Ends Problem Light Social Cutting Bones Tunnels Cohesion Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel Cutting Down

Author:Antonis Samaras

“If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.”

Ifs Knows World Want War Might Peace Watches Cutting Defense War Of The Worlds Barometer Cutting Down

Author:Will Rogers

“People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.”

People Knows Cutting Tree Streets Huge Moved Toothbrushes Cutting Down

Author:Rob Delaney

“I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.”

Cutting Composing Conducting Cutting Down

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.”

Whole Grows Cutting Doors Exercise Organization Protest Platforms Closing Cutting Down Closing Doors

Author:Bocafloja

“With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.”

“I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.”

Felt Cutting Masters Buddhism Mountain Rejection Recalls Zen Master Cutting Down

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.”

Thinking Want Would Be Given Cutting Tree Birthday Satisfying Jewelry My Birthday Chainsaw Cutting Down

Author:Susan Orlean

“We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.”

States Cutting Regions Efficient Greece Cutting Down

Author:George Papandreou

“I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.”

People I Can Shows Pay Cutting My Friends Unions Lots Of Money Farming Alabama Cutting Down

Author:Kid Rock

“Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.”

Should Mean Said Lord Cutting Talent Missing Honor Superiors Spares Flocks Composing Gowns Forsaken Cutting Down

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

“Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.”

Thinking Way Funny Cutting Expenses Cutting Down

Author:Woody Allen

“Practice means cutting down chance and risk.”

Mean Chance Practice Cutting Risk Dance Chance And Risk Cutting Down

Author:Donnie Burns

“Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.”

Way Needs War Enemy Cutting Strategy Refinement Cutting Down

Book:A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind

Source: A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind

“Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps.”

Cutting Feet Dog Killing Spread Active Forests Parks Capture Going Out Traps Conservation Attempting Dinosaurs Gorillas Cutting Down Rabies Poachers

Author:Dian Fossey

“That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.”

Earth Cutting Ocean Rain Forests Toasts Rainy Rainy Day Reefs Coral Reefs Cutting Down

Author:Michael Berryman

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”

Beautiful Cutting Tree Son Calling Newspapers Fancy Canada Bloody Civilisation Pulp Cutting Down Beautiful Trees

Book:The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

Source: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

“We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.”

Use Deals Economy Cutting Environmental Woods Cutting Down

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.”

Source: The Conspiracy Against Childhood

“Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.”

Desire Justice Cutting Tree Danger Spring Longing Forests Buddhist Cutting Down

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left.”

Doe Important Jobs Left Opinion Cutting Policy News Size Posts Patriot Best Job Pompous Propagandist Cutting Down

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.”

Turns Opportunity Cutting Balls Snow Productive Over You Offensive Cutting Down

Author:Eric Snow

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.”

Beautiful Cutting Tree Calling Newspapers Fancy Bloody Civilisation Pulp Cutting Down Beautiful Trees

Author:Winston Churchill

“The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, “Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.”

Knows Earth Remember Passion Dark Creativity Cutting Rain Medicine Sexuality Forests Feminine Do You Know Wet Hostile Amazon Tangled Cutting Down

Book:Shaman, Healer, Sage

Source: Shaman, Healer, Sage

“We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Long Animal Cutting Growing Imagine Planets Population Billions Parasites Devouring Rainforest Cutting Down

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.”

Believe Rooms Cutting Tree Compromise Sincerely Grazing Cutting Down

Author:Steve Irwin

“Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.”

May Facts Able Humanity Cutting Tree Forests Oblivious Cutting Down

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Economy: cutting down other people's wages.”

People Business Economy Cutting Finance Wages Cutting Down

Author:J. B. Morton

“To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.”

Easy Cutting Imagine Husband Mouths Smoke Smoking My Husband Asthma Stop Smoking Cutting Down

Author:Holly Marie Combs

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