Woods Quotes - Page 2

• She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Stones, Might

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

  Gary Larson

  Fall, Tree, Doe

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• There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Farewell, Pleasure

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

  Libba Bray

  Soul, Tonight, My Soul

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.290, Delacorte Press

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• Whose woods these are I think I know.
  His house is in the village though;
  He will not see me stopping here
  To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Snow, House

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

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• If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

  Pete Seeger

  Nature, Church, Feels

  "Letters to Answer, and Logs to Split" by Michael Wilson, www.nytimes.com. October 1, 2010.

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Aries

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• When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Use, Sage

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• We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Heart

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 9, 2011.

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• The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Nature, Healing, Answers

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Real, Believe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Life, Yield

  "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Decay

  "Tithonus" l. 1 (1860 - 1864)

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• As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

  Emily Carr

  Light, Rocks, Tree

  Emily Carr (1979). “Hundreds and thousands”

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• No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Dream, Flower

  "Katherine Mansfield Notebooks".

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• In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.

  Lewis Nordan

  Baby, Sweet, Dark

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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• The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Bird, Singing, Would Be

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• 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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• It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Rocks, Water

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

  Roger Deakin

  Different, World, Transformed

  Roger Deakin (2009). “Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

  Khaled Hosseini

  Spring, Snow, Bird

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.168, A&C Black

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