Woods Quotes - Page 32

• It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.

  Scotty Moore

  Beautiful, Party, Cutting

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• I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.

  Kemp Muhl

  Wall, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Years, Listening To Music

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• I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

  Saint Patrick

  Hurt, Rain, Ice

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• In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Forever, Hammers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

  Shailene Woodley

  Skills, Fire, Tree

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Life, Moving, Eye

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

  A. E. Housman

  Wind, Snow, Saplings

  'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 31

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• The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Fire, Campaigns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.360, Library of America

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• The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

  W. C. Fields

  Wife, Needs, Splits

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

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• How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Idols, Scripture

  Isaac Watts, John DOBELL (1805). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book fourth. Composed on divers subjects by I. Watts. Compiled and arranged by J. Dobell”, p.61

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• What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

  John Cage

  Nature, Ifs

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Children, Rain, Snow

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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Sea

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

  Hermann Hesse

  Unity, All Things

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.103, Om Books International

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• Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gratitude, Fire, Cold

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• Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Sunshine, Bud

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.22, tredition

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• To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, House, Burning

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• As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Meaningful, Brother, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

  David Trubridge

  People, Design, Who Cares

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