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Woods Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the woods we return to reason and faith.
- If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than…
- 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…
- 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…
- A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the…
- The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime,…
- Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October…
- Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney…
- In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a…
- If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house…
- The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and…
- "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my…
More Woods Quotes
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- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when… — Christian Bale
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't… — Sade Adu
- I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear… — Tom Brady
- I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different… — Jo Brand
- I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and… — Jo Brand