I might spend a day in the gardens watching people plant or harvest sweet potatoes, which is their principal crop, or climbing up into the forest where they were cutting down wood with stone axes.
But Mexico has been cutting down.
She does smoke but is cutting down.
For us, there is no cutting down.
There are many menial tasks a monk must complete in a day (cooking, cleaning, cutting down trees, chopping wood, making brooms), and he is given very little time to do them.
Mahatma Gandhi counted him among the few Hindu reformers "who have maintained this Hindu religion in a state of splendor by cutting down the dead wood of tradition".
Their primary function is to collect resources, cutting down trees for wood, mining for stone and gold, and hunting, foraging, farming, or fishing to acquire food.
In the past, warreners looked after rabbits on heathland, reedcutters worked the reed beds to produce thatching and hundreds were employed in woods cutting down hazel coppice for products such as sheep hurdles.
Wear gloves when working where poison ivy may be present, such as when cutting down trees in the woods, mowing brush, etc.
Besides cutting down trees to sell wood, the poor also made a living by turning wood into charcoal, burning oyster shells to make lime, fired pots, and wove mats and baskets.
