Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors

Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous… — Robert Boyle
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one… — John Tuzo Wilson
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. — Meister Eckhart
I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back. — Jack White
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the… — Chogyam Trungpa
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! — Albert Hofmann
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success… — Robert Menzies
America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric… — George W. Bush
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the… — Chief Seattle
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. — Henry David Thoreau
There is pleasure in the pathless woods. — Lord Byron
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life… — Helen Keller
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to… — Percy Lubbock
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce. — John Gardner
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods… — John Jay Chapman
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Unknown Author
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails… — John Burroughs
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths. — Thomas Cole
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. — Walt Whitman
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one… — Will Cuppy
My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance… — Margaret Bourke-White
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will… — Alexander Graham Bell

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