Woods Quotes - Page 9

• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, People

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• The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.

  John Muir

  Summer, Country, Sky

  John Muir (1918). “The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails”

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• In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Sunshine, Blue

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.14

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• The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

  Gary Player

  Sports, Stars, Way

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• You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.

  George Washington Carver

  Years, Land, Suffering

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• Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Discovery, Years

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• They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Cities, House

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• How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

  Nick Offerman

  Two, Lucky, Legs

  Interview with Chris Baio, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk.

  Bear Grylls

  Kids, Empowering, Risk

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

  Joe Fafard

  Together, Clay, Stuff

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• But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

  Phil Cousineau

  Dark, Fire, Light

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.22, Conari Press

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• To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

  Bill Bryson

  America, People, Would Be

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• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  George Nakashima

  Mean, Men, Tree

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• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

  E. B. White

  Summer, Song, Eggs

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Beautiful, Beer, Snow

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

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• I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Machines, Chance, Theater

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Way, Remember, Easy

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

  Julie Berry

  Cheer, People, Celebrate

  Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.90, Penguin

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• When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Air, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Games, Water

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.119, Random House

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• Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

  Jay Carr

  Jobs, Eye, Generations

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• Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Song, Grief, Night

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.481

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• Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Names, Nymphs, Long

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270

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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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