timber-estimating

Updated: May 11, 2025

Practical farmers are beginning to look upon them with an evil eye an eye sharp and severe with pecuniary speculation; that looks at an oak or elm with no artist's reverence; that darts a hard, dry, timber-estimating glance at the trunk and branches; that looks at the circumference of its cold shadow on the earth beneath, not at the grand contour and glorious leafage of its boughs above.

Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's