Woods Quotes - Page 19

• Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
  of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

  Donald Hall

  Horse, Glasses, Sea

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
  with smoky wings, entangles them.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Nature, Autumn, Land

  Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

  Ella T. Grasso

  Thinking, President, Today

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• Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Different, Cinema

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

  Elton John

  Artist, Tree, Sometimes

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what was going on with him. He seemed like he was angry about something. My favorite one though is Pinocchio. I liked that kid. He was made of wood. I liked that for a start. I also liked how he'd tell a lie and his nose would grow. I liked the morality of that.

  Russell Brand

  Lying, Kids, Ducks

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Snow, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

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• Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.

  John Hancock

  Fall, Common Sense, Water

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Sight, Matter, Lost

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

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• During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.

  Dave Barry

  War, Years, Sea

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• Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Philosophical, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Years, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.416, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• Think me not unkind and rude
  That I walk alone in grove and glen;
  I go to the god of the wood
  To fetch his word to men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Rude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

  Gary Snyder

  Running, Writing, People

  Gary Snyder, William Scott McLean (1980). “The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Charity, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.47, Penguin

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• You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Past, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me that there was something to be seen if one had eyes. It made a believer of me more than before. I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day,--not an empty chamber, in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house,--and for a few moments I enjoyed fellowship with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Sleep, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Civilization, Moss

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.160

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• In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Bird, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Cutting, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Nature, Children

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.817, e-artnow

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