Woods Quotes - Page 5

• I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, People, Titles

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• If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

  Dana Delany

  Together, Rooms, Liam

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

  Dick Dale

  Philosophy, Gauges, Sound

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• I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Years, Listening To Music

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Way, Certain

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

  Jay Griffiths

  Children, Thinking, Space

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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Men, Noise, Bears

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.23, Rutgers University Press

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• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Majority, Population, Raw Materials

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Cutting, Kissing, Evil

  Song: Empty Sky, Album: The Rising, 2002

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Mountain, Green

  1798 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye', l.102-6.

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• They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

  Rudyard Kipling

  Nature, Rain, Years

  'Rewards and Fairies' (1910) 'The Way through the Woods'

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• The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.

  Dakotsu Iida

  Nature, Morning, Sun

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• Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' on our night moves.

  Bob Seger

  Moving, Night, Past

  Song: Night Moves, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?

  David Brewster

  Depressing, Art, Struggle

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• I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

  Lou Reed

  Army, Redneck, Piglet

  Song: Beginning of a Great Adventure, Album: New York

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• I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

  Daniel Clowes

  Fans, Pulp

  "Daniel Clowes Talks Confidential". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Running, Couple

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• I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

  Celia Imrie

  Laughter, Fun, Acting

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• People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

  Ken Jennings

  Simple, Space, Gps

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  Fran Kranz

  Mean, Awful, Cabins

  "Fran Kranz on Dollhouse, Cabin In The Woods, and Much Ado About Nothing". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2012.

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• In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.

  Nick Kroll

  Moving, Writing, School

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• I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

  Taylor Kinney

  Football, Country, Fun

  "Taylor Kinney Exclusive Interview the Vampire Diaries". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

  Tom Waits

  Philosophy, Use, Crosses

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