Woods Quotes - Page 7

• I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

  Daniel Boone

  Confused, Three, Lost

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• Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

  Larry Watson

  Summer, Stars, Autumn

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• I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

  Saint Patrick

  Hurt, Rain, Ice

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• George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

  Jim Frey

  Aspirin

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• Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

  Jack Gilbert

  Dream, Angel, Heart

  Jack Gilbert, “Horses At Midnight Without A Moon”

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• It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.

  Scotty Moore

  Beautiful, Party, Cutting

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• Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Father, Loneliness

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

  W. C. Fields

  Wife, Needs, Splits

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• In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Forever, Hammers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

  A. E. Housman

  Wind, Snow, Saplings

  'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 31

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• I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Life, Moving, Eye

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Idols, Scripture

  Isaac Watts, John DOBELL (1805). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book fourth. Composed on divers subjects by I. Watts. Compiled and arranged by J. Dobell”, p.61

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• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Children, Rain, Snow

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• What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

  John Cage

  Nature, Ifs

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• One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.

  John Cage

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• Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

  Julia Child

  Creativity, Drawing, Creative

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• When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Journey, Sometimes, Realizing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.51, A&C Black

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• September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Country, Good Luck, Autumn

  Eleanor Perenyi (2016). “More Was Lost: A Memoir”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

  Charles Churchill

  Flood, Command, Oaks

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

  Sidney Lanier

  Tree, Mind, Olives

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press

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• In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

  Robert Briffault

  Running, Jobs, Taken

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• So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

  Emily Carr

  Silence, Sound, Dialect

  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers

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• Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Children, Dark, Silent

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.83

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• I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

  Philip Guston

  Country, Nature, Real

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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