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Woods Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
- A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
- When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded…
- That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
- He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came…
- When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not…
- 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…
- The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
- I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
- 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…
- The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
- In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of…
- I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
- It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
- As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of…
- 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…
- What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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- 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
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- 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 see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear… — Tom Brady
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