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738 Wood quotes by 578 unique authors

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of… — Loren Eiseley
Follow the grain in your own wood.... — Howard Thurman
When you chop wood, chips fly. — Unknown Author
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. — Marianne Boruch
In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic… — Joel Salatin
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. — Odell Shepard
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
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… — George Nakashima
There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a… — Bruce Littlefield
I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves. — Laozi
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head. — Laozi
Simple, like uncarved wood. — Laozi
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master… — Laozi
It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it — John Frusciante
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, Â plaster or clay. — Eva Zeisel
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. — Lawrence Hargrave
The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who… — Pentti Linkola
Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it. — Ray Mears
The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree… — Babatunde Olatunji
It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy — Chris Cole
Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it. — Guy Finley
The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they… — Russell Baker
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! — Walter Scott
I have a thousand images of you in an hour; all different and all coming back to the same. I think of you once against… — Rupert Brooke
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as… — Henry David Thoreau

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