Woods Quotes

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.

Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward!

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

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

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

When you chop wood, chips fly.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

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

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

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.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.

Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

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

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.

I'm lost in the woods right now.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

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