Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake… — Jeanette Winterson
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of… — Nicholson Baker
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there,… — Kenneth Grahame
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true… — Charles Dickens
Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the… — Guy Gavriel Kay
The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit… — Shel Silverstein
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods… — John Muir
I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that… — David Benioff
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father,… — Amy Tan
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant… — Oscar Wilde
We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. — Suzanne Collins
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones… — Alice Hoffman
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces,… — Sue Monk Kidd
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own… — Garrison Keillor
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a… — Margaret Atwood
There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out — Kenneth Grahame
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger… — Anne Lamott
I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph- — Rick Riordan
The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll… — Jodi Picoult

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