Best 381 quotes in «woods quotes» category

When we lose these woods, we lose our soul. Not simply as individuals, but as a people.

Yes, he knew it was crazy to be this obsessed over an encounter that had taken up maybe sixty seconds of his life. (Or had it been an hour and sixty seconds?) But what an encounter. His fingers still felt the bones and flesh through her sweater, his tongue still tasted her mysterious bitter-greens mouth, her voice still haunted him with that whispered 'Help me.

With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice--that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

Boys need wood to chop.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

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

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.

Going into the woods, is going home

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.