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738 Wood quotes by 578 unique authors

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression… — Louis Comfort Tiffany
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my… — Jonathan Swift
Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood....… — John B. Watson
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or… — John Milton
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a… — William Wordsworth
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but… — Thomas Cole
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early… — Henry David Thoreau
The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall… — Ann Zwinger
Time can make soft that iron wood. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to… — Kurt Schwitters
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood. — Marco Pierre White
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood… — Temple Grandin
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels.… — Garth Stein
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and… — Unknown Author
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms. — Dorothy Parker
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses… — William Henry Ashley
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly,… — Kenneth Grahame
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on… — Charles Perrault
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow. — William James
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive… — Mimi Sheraton
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a… — Simon Schama

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