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Wood Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- 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…
- I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
- The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
- I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,…
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
More Wood Quotes
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when… — Christian Bale
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't… — Sade Adu
- I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different… — Jo Brand
- I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit… — Jo Brand
- I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. — George Carlin
- In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was… — Dante Alighieri
- There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. — Jean Cocteau
- Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire… — Sun Tzu