Quote by bell hooks

“Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of…

— Nikolai Gogol

“I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.”

— Laurie R. King

“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free…

— bell hooks

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Unable to farm the area where they now lived, many turned to logging and working in small sawmills. Some men raised cattle and became…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“They said nothing and our parents said nothing, so we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars. We realized…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates…

— Roger Deakin

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent—I name no names.”

— Kenneth Grahame