Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape …

- George Nakashima

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

- George Nakashima

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

- George Nakashima

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

- George Nakashima

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to l…

- George Nakashima

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of th…

- George Nakashima