Air Quote by Henry David Thoreau

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed…

— Henry David Thoreau

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

— Dan Kiley

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild…

— John Burnside

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

— Roger Deakin

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out…

— Henry David Thoreau

To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of…

— David Longstreth

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

— Lord Byron

Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides.…

— Bill Bryson

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

— Rebecca Solnit

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your…

— Mirabel Osler

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon…

— Henry David Thoreau