If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'...… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact… In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he… — Hank Haney Copy Share Image
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young,… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international"… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past… — Tim Finchem Copy Share Image
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell… — Ken Weber Copy Share Image
In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A… — Carson Cistulli Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's… — John Milton Copy Share Image