Woods Quotes · Page 12

“Living in the woods does strange things to lonely men.”

— Paul Doiron

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

— Marcel Proust

Hunting and fishing in the woods? I'm too ADHD.

— Travis Pastrana

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

— Tori Amos

The woods are full of long drivers.

— Harvey Penick

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

— William Carlos Williams

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

— Lindsey Vonn

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

— Laozi

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

— Janine Turner

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts…

— James F. Cooper

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the…

— Lady Bird Johnson

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

— John Dewey

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

She cut her eyes to the woods and whispered, "We're not alone, remember?" "I don't care who hears it. I love you!"…

— C.C. Hunter

Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in…

— John Burroughs

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,…

— Abigail Adams

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the…

— Flann O'Brien

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn…

— A. E. Housman

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters,…

— C. S. Lewis

Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods,…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead……

— Henry David Thoreau

I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to…

— Hanshan

Being authentic in the way you'll see today on the sets [of Doctor Strange] that Charles Wood has designed for us, being…

— Kevin Feige

She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd…

— David Wroblewski

“Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment's arrest…

— James Gould Cozzens

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For…

— Robert Southey

In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a…

— Michael Crichton

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

— Ray Mears

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess…

— B. Wayne Hughes

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

— Roger Deakin

“I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.”

— Jennifer Lynch

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

— Ernest Hemingway

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

— Benjamin Hoff