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“The way energy industry costs are going, I think we are on our way back to living on 10 acre lots filled with trees for firewood!”

Energy Environment Industry Living Filled Trees Inflation Firewood Costs Acre

Author:Steven Magee

“Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again.”

Book:The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master

Source: The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master

“We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.”

Wells Children Light Used House Fire Mountain Horse Winter Climbs Climbing Cows Goats Climbing Mountain Livestock Winter Time Firewood

Author:Tamae Watanabe

“The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.”

Children Doe Differences Victim Prepared Soldier Meals Grandmother Going Out Civilians Landmines Firewood

Author:Jody Williams

“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

“How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!”

Water Miraculous Wondrous Firewood

Author:Layman Pang

“From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.”

Trouble Tree Fallen Firewood Fallen Trees

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

May Done Use Lasts Evil Process Pleasure Hell Pieces Habit Eternal Stones Woods This Life Satan Construction Centre Constructs Builder Arches Keystones Firewood

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source: Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands

“It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.”

Knows May Pain Humanity Force Doubt Ultimate Green Philosopher Deeper Burned Veils Imposing Profundity Firewood

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.”

Light Today Fire Green East Smoke Firewood

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.”

Heart Process Changed Hot Frightened Baths Transforming Hot Baths Firewood

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.”

Gone Cutting Violence Tree Grew Absence Shock Farmers Firewood

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.”

Mean Father Term Rich Movement India Plant Disappear Forests Hills Streams Peasants Fodder Firewood

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.”

Ifs World Stills Energy Water Can Do Differences Huge Safe Clean Developing Fuel Collecting Ovens Clean Energy Firewood

Author:Melinda Gates

“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.”

Firsts Water Hours Walks Victim Environmental Degradation Kenya Fetch Environmental Degradation Firewood

Author:Wangari Maathai

“In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood”

Trying Stills Sometimes Hard Felt Sleep Mouths Red Lonely Wine Good Times Bags Sigh Having A Good Time Curls Red Wine Trying Too Hard Firewood

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.”

Use Culture Girl House Sides Drug Computer Sophisticated Headache Firewood

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies," Valek teased. "Hey!" Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. "Do you know how to use it?" "Of course. I chopped Yelena's bow into firewood," Leif joked.”

Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

“What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)”

Ifs Giving Different Ends Remember Dies Names Loses Loss Worry Pieces Shapes Gains Woods Discrimination Substance Chairs Unhappiness Ashes Different Names Firewood

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?”

Knows Men Book Philosophy Body Action Study Wise Intellectual Empty Essence Medicine Senses Donkey Soma Firewood

Author:Saadi

“When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.”

Facts Eye Felt Memories White Mouths Shots Gold Fingers Photograph Foolish Rings Absurd Bitter Sunset Twists Brides Silk Brows Dots Gallows Firewood Sari Sandalwood

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.”

Men Littles Has Beens War Blood Boredom Shed Mosquitoes Chopping Firewood

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”

Knows Men Want Needs May Reason Numbers Tree Plant Likes Someday Shelter Plant A Tree Firewood

Book:Runemarks

Source: Runemarks

“Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.”

Has Beens Lasts Hours Food Ideals Cooking Everyday Block Consumers Pounds Culinary Twelve Peasants Beans Splitting Firewood Ambrosia

Book:Julia Child & more company

Source: Julia Child & more company

“Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Inspirational Mind Earth Speak Doors Air Tree Honest Changed Return Honestly Confused Reports Do You Know Firewood You've Changed

Author:Byron Katie

“The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts.”

Lasts Joy Force Waiting Love Is Greater Love You Late Green Heat Yield Lighting Love Is Like Firewood

Author:Chretien de Troyes

“Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.”

Hard Use Home Natural Depends Oil Heat Gas American Family Natural Gas Firewood

Author:Richard Pombo

“You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.”

Ifs Giving Kind Fire Taste Giving Up Wine Drunk Firewood

Author:Rumi

“Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.”

House Grows Cutting Tree Raises Warm Meat Heat Grain Stoves Wool Firewood Flax

Author:Ernest Poole

“The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.”

“Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them.”

Ifs Needs Years Mean Loses Animal Millions Tree Amount Cost Thousand Investment Environmental Killing Saved Damage Dry Cows Replaced Diesel Tractors Firewood Rupees Environmental Damage

Author:Maneka Gandhi

“Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?”

Should Done Change Universal Baths Suitable Firewood Afraid Of Change

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.”

Action Motivation Fuel Thrust Firewood

Author:Steve Backley

“As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.”

Children Eye Courses Rooms Numbers Objects Building Creatures Window Opposites Caught Various Servant Dry Crow Posture Crawling Lizards Twigs Rooftops Chopping Firewood

Book:The tunnel of time: an autobiography

Source: The tunnel of time: an autobiography

“The piano is not firewood -- yet.”

Author:Regina Spektor

“There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.”

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“My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.”

Ends Turns Three House Wife Tree Mines Sells My Wife Dirt Dead Ends Capes Fireplaces Cape Cod Old Houses Firewood Dirt Roads

Author:Sebastian Junger