Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split. — W.C. Fields
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,… — Charles Caleb Colton
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. — A. E. Housman
I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for… — Thalassa Cruso
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest,… — Vigen Guroian
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God… — George Washington Carver
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent… — Carl Jung
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet. — Henry David Thoreau
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the… — C.S. Lewis
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. — Horace
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great… — William Shakespeare
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew… — Bernard of Clairvaux
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed… — William C. Bryant
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the… — Barbara Kingsolver
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. — Walter Scott
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But… — Robert Southey
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill… — John Milton
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really… — Mary Oliver
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. — John Heywood
Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses… — Lucy Larcom
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these… — John Quincy Adams
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as… — Sam Walter Foss

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