Tree Felling Quotes

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.

In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our horizons were felled, their loss was a constant topic of sad and angry conversation.

We could have chopped down the sycamore with this.

When the last tree is felled, Christ will return to the Earth.

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.