Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 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
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all… — Edward Lear
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
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… — Henry David Thoreau
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
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. — Henry David Thoreau
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,… — Alberto Santos-Dumont
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted… — William Butler Yeats
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 nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again… — Luis de Camoes
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 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… — 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
Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or"… — Stephen Sondheim
Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into… — Stephen Sondheim
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
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the… — Natalie Babbitt
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

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