Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors

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
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… — Henry David Thoreau
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
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed… — Daniel Harvey Hill
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
Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward! — John F. Reynolds
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
While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental… — Unknown Author
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper… — Alex Steffen
Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity. — Unknown Author
Boys need wood to chop. — Unknown Author
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,… — Mary Oliver
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
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain… — Hermann Hesse
The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I think a new, different kind of bowling should be "carpet bowling." It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood.… — Jack Handey
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I… — Jack Handey

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