Woods Quotes - Page 23

• I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.

  John Lindsay

  Mistake, Years, Trying

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Might, Path, Ordinary

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Writing, Golf

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Book, Boys, Hands

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• The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Answers, Paper

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• When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Order, Sea

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• But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wind, Drawing, East

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.461, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, House, Burning

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• Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Sunshine, Bud

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.22, tredition

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Spiders, Crawling, Rustic

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

  David Hockney

  Black And White, Color, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Children, Sensibility

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• To be human is to be lost in the woods.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Lost, Lost In The Woods, Humans

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.19, Random House

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• I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

  Horace

  Spring, Garden, Land

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• All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

  George Washington Carver

  Flower, Littles, Loving Everything

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Mom, Florida, Way

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

  Eddie Martinez

  Dad, Growing Up, Real

  Interview with Ross Simonini, logger.believermag.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Adding two or three chunks of wood to the coals adds a great smoke flavor to meat. I prefer pecan wood, which adds a mellow smoke flavor, but any good wood will work. And most barbecue sections in stores and supermarkets around the country, like Walmart, sell hickory wood, which adds a heavier smoke flavor. Oak is also a good option for a mellow smoke flavor.

  Johnny Trigg

  Country, Two, Add

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• Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird taste into your meat. However, if you already have a gas grill, you can bring in some smoke flavor by tightly rolling wood chips in tin foil really tight and placing them on the top of your burners.

  Johnny Trigg

  Meat, Rolling, Tin

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• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

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• The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

  Martin Luther

  Christ, Cradle, Straws

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• You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

  Jase Robertson

  Heart, Men, Weapons

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