timber quotes

Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind, and listen to what others say about subjects you have studied but recently. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

- Immanuel Kant
  Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbu«  rgerlicher Absicht (Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose), prop.6.

The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains isgoing home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

-John Muir
Our National Parks, ch.1,'The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West'.