Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? — Jonathan Swift
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
I found things in the woods that I didn’t know I was looking for… and now I’ll never be the same. — Jennifer Pharr Davis
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber… — Elwyn Brooks White
You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods. — Vanessa Carlton
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood. — James F. Cooper
You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger,… — Hank Haney
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… — Henry David Thoreau
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… — Henry David Thoreau
To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. — Roger Deakin
I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods. — Tracy Chapman
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time… — Mark Nepo
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, why did you leave me in these woods? — Aleksandar Hemon
That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder… — Richard Hough
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone… — Robert Montgomery
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. — Matsuo Basho
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… — Henry David Thoreau
The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are… — Robert Graves
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers,… — William Blake
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One. — Meister Eckhart

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