Woods Quotes

1365 Woods quotes by 920 unique authors

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. — George Eliot
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully… — William C. Bryant
We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do. — Thomas Jefferson
The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it… — James Lane Allen
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — Plutarch
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. — Robert Rauschenberg
James Hardie(R) siding is a sustainable and marvelous substitute for wood. It's available pre-colored and the finish truly looks like high-grade wood siding. I've used… — Sarah Susanka
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on… — Malala Yousafzai
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its… — Paul Auster
If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around,… — J D Salinger
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the… — Julia Child
There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red… — Sarah Hall
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Henry David Thoreau
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does. — Abbas Kiarostami
Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer… — Francis Chan
It is true that not even Christ is seen, but he exists; he is risen, he is alive, he is close to us, more truly… — Raniero Cantalamessa
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was… — Henry David Thoreau
Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that… — Vera Nazarian
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. — Kenneth R. Miller
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. — Gautama Buddha

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