Woods Quotes - Page 20

• Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Swamps

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.586, Modern Library

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• A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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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?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Garden, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.8, Editora Dracaena

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Ambition, Clubs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin

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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin (2006). “Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing”, Heyday Books

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• If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Circles, Doe, Noble

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Cutting, Umbria, White

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 1,

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• The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fire, Air, Water

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 14), circa 15 BC.

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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• you must not use wood to put out the fire.

  Bette Lord

  Fire, Use, Futility

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• Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
  As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Night, Grieving

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• I turned my head and saw the wind,
  Not far from where I stood,
  Dragging the corn by her golden hair,
  Into a dark and lonely wood.

  W. H. Davies

  Lonely, Dark, Hair

  William Henry Davies, “The VILLain”

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• Lost in a haunted wood,
  Children afraid of the night
  Who have never been happy or good.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Fear, Night

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.159, DEBOLS!LLO

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• We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lucky, Fool, Said

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Past, Fields

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Envy, Cages

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 27

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• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Wise, Sight, Soul

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Cutting, Dust, Flesh

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• O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Nature, Solitude

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

  Stephen Fry

  Facts, Accepting, Tigers

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2009

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• It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

  Richard Whately

  Friendship, Past, Tree

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.299

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• Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

  John Muir

  Home, Going Home

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.767, Library of America

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• ...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Village, Return, Wilderness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Patience

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