Woodland Quotes
52 Woodland quotes by 44 unique authors
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of…
— Hal Borland
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
— Robert Burns
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Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's…
— James Grahame
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In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even,…
— Thomas Guthrie
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The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is…
— Hal Borland
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as…
— Alexander Pope
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the…
— Poul Anderson
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My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home…
— Clive Anderson
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Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
— David Attenborough
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That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland
— Jonathan Stroud
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When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.…
— Fred Bear
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
— Linus Torvalds
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After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and…
— Robyn Hitchcock
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In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One,…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough…
— T. H. Watkins
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours…
— Lord Dunsany
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem…
— Gregory Maguire
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People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes…
— Richard Adams
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To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have…
— Lucy Larcom
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Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on…
— Luc Sante
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[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but…
— Aldo Leopold
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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Woodland Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 52 Woodland Quotes, led by these top contributors: