Woods Quotes - Page 3

• The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Night, Tree

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• The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.

  Annie Dillard

  Strong, Morning, Butterfly

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• Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Tree, Nests, Forests

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• I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Healing, Tree

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.133, Counterpoint Press

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• For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Different, Green

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Walks, Exalted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

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• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Life Without Principle" (1863)

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Autumn, Gold

  "The Third of November". Poem by William C. Bryant (1861), first published in William C. Bryant "Thirty Poems" (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sea, Forever, Soul

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.2842, e-artnow

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

  John Fowles

  Nature, Moving, Tree

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• 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 comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sky, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

  Hal Borland

  Winter, White, Bud

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• A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

  Marco Pierre White

  Roots, Tree, Pieces

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

  Paulo Coelho

  Law, Psychosis, Neurosis

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• Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Men, Intimate

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

  Georges Simenon

  Sculpture, Pieces, Novel

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

  Christopher Strachey

  Tree

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• For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Golden Days, Play

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.368, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Rivers, Bird

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• A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Degrees, Ornaments

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.162

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• Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.

  Karl Pilkington

  Safe, Green

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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