Woods Quote by Edmund Blunden

When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now…

— George Horace Lorimer

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

— Cormac McCarthy

“So you see, the real question isn't how I left this world to go to the woods. It's how I made myself come back.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose…

— Anna Quindlen

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by…

— Hermann Hesse

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours…

— Hal Borland

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

— Dashiell Hammett

The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black…

— Mo Yan

When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.

— Layman Pang

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

— Carl Jung

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…

— Thomas Jefferson

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but…

— Anne Ursu

Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,…

— Steve Rushin

“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,…

— Craig Davidson