Lost In The Woods Quotes

• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Home, Woods, Moments

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Woods, Forests

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Woods, Lost, Humans

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

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

  Ira Gershwin

  Lambs, Littles, Woods

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• No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Woods, Matter

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

  Daniel Boone

  Confused, Three, Woods

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• Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sarcastic, Humorous, Comedian

  "Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together". Comedy, 2003.

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• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  Daniel Boone

  Inspirational, Confused, Confusion

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• When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sight, Woods, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I'm lost in the woods right now.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Woods, Lost, Right Now

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• I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Loneliness, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Hunters, Woods

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• Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.

  John Dos Passos

  Fall, Men, Fire

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• Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

  John Gardner

  Art, Writing, Waiting

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• I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Survival, Woods

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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