Word: lumbers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mind, Holmes told Watson, is like an attic. "You have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out." Holmes stocked his own mental attic with a detailed knowledge of chemistry and cigar ashes. Knowing about cigars helped him solve The Boscombe Valley Mystery...
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. The intellectual attic is stuffed now. Urgent, exotic pieces of lumber (like Nagorno-Karabakh and Baku and Soweto and Tadzhikistan and Violeta Chamorro and Yegor Ligachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Sisulu and Umberto Eco, on and on) are gathering in the mind from all over the world. They are tumbling out the windows...
...rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...
...years environmentalists and loggers have quarreled over the fate of "old- growth" forests in the Pacific Northwest. Conservationists contend that cutting the ancient trees on federally owned land in Oregon and Washington State threatens the habitat of the endangered spotted owl, which lives only in old-growth forests. The lumber industry objects that a ban would devastate the timber-based economies of the region. Last week George Bush signed into law a compromise hammered out by a congressional conference committee. It prohibits sales of timber from areas where the spotted owl dwells, but permits 7.7 billion board feet of wood...
Nearly 90% of the lumber now comes from Sarawak and Sabah, the two Malaysian states on Borneo. On paper at least, Malaysia, a well-off country with a relatively small population (17.4 million), has a model plan for the "sustainable development" of its forests. The reality is that neither the overall plan nor specific regulations have had much impact, and logging operations continue essentially uncontrolled. "In theory everything is fine," says S.C. Chin, a Malaysian forestry expert. "But 20 years ago, Thailand and the Philippines said everything was fine too, and now they have largely been stripped...