Woods Quotes
1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors
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Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
— Rachel Carson
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It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since…
— John Muir
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could…
— John Muir
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In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in…
— John Muir
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And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one…
— Saint Patrick
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If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make…
— Ignatius Loyola
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There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight…
— Rachel Carson
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I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
— H P Lovecraft
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those…
— John Muir
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I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a forester worked in…
— Gifford Pinchot
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By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.
— John Muir
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
— John Muir
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All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or…
— John Muir
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Going into the woods, is going home
— John Muir
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The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,…
— John Muir
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Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from…
— John Muir
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A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible…
— John Muir
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In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel…
— Gary Player
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You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods…
— George Washington Carver
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