Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilization.

To his son, Randolph Churchill, during a trip to Canada, on 11 August 1929

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 40 (H.M. Stationery Office, 1976), p. 57


Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilization.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilization.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilization.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilization.