Pastoral Resources

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.