Quote by Richard Ben Sapir

“The woods seemed less daunting than they had when I was a teenager, the trees shorter, the undergrowth less thick. I supposed that was…

— V.J. Chambers

“I swore that when I grew up and got my own apartment, I would get one that smelled of old wood, not old cats.”

— Allen Eskens

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

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

— Cormac McCarthy

“It's iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you…

— Roddy Doyle

“Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood.”

— A.E. Housman

“It is not the length of life that matters. It’s the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.”

— Matt Haig

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…

— Paul Harding

“I am not disappointed by my old age. There are still stories to tell, paths to walk, and fire within that refuses to diminish.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see anything as…

— Cormac McCarthy