Cutting Down Quotes

• Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Mean, Cutting

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• Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

  J. B. Morton

  Business, Cutting, People

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• 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.

  Susan Orlean

  Birthday, Cutting, Thinking

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• 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.

  Chris Noth

  Home, Cutting, Animal

  "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• 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.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Husband, Cutting, Smoking

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Cutting, People

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• 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.

  Norman Borlaug

  Cutting, Animal, Agriculture

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• 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.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Fall, Angel, Heart

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• Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Cat, Cutting, Tree

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• 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.

  E. J. Hughes

  Change, Cutting, Mind

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• 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.

  Michael Berryman

  Rain, Ocean, Cutting

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• 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.

  Dian Fossey

  Dog, Cutting, Feet

  "Naturalist Dian Fossey Slain at Camp in Rwanda : American Was Expert on Mountain Gorillas; Assailants Hunted". articles.latimes.com. December 29, 1985.

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

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Cutting, Enemy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cutting, Environmental, Use

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• 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.

  Kid Rock

  Cutting, People, Unions

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Cutting, Thinking

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Cutting, Tree, Humanity

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• 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.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Cutting, Tree

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• 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.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Cutting, Rejection

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• 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.

  Eric Snow

  Cutting, Opportunity, Snow

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• 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

  John Vaillant

  Beautiful, Son, Cutting

  John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Spring, Cutting

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• 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.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspiring, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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