Quotes having the keyword Woods
There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.
by Thomas Shepard (Clergyman, American , born in 1605) keywords: almost, among, been, bees, care, down, fields, get, hath, hitherto, hive, honey, number, old, only, own, sorts, their, towns, up, us, whose, woods, work , young Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
by Huston Smith (Theologian, American , born in 1919) keywords: dark, into, lured, metaphysics, new, newtonian, rationalism, rescue, science, us , woods The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
by Gustav Stickley (Architect, American , born in 1858) keywords: fills, logs, nook, peace, quiet, rhythmic, rustic, secluded, wall , woods Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
by Lewis Thomas (Scientist, English , born in 1913) keywords: ahead, bench, bend, breath, catching, climbing, coming, expect, farther, few, get, glimpse, just, lines, moment, path, place, road, seeing, sit, sometimes, steep, through, where, wooden, woods , your 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.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: because, came, could, deliberately, die, discover, essential, facts, front, had, learn, life, live, lived, only, see, teach, went, wished , woods If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) topics: Nature keywords: bald, before, being, citizen, danger, day, days, deemed, each, earth, enterprising, half, her, his, industrious, loafer, love, making, man, off, regarded, speculator, spends, them, those, time, walks , woods Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
by Henry Timrod (Poet, American , born in 1829) keywords: banks, burns, court, dark, fragrant, green, into, jasmine, lamps, lonely, out, royal, turns , woods I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
by Steven Tyler (Musician, American , born in 1948) keywords: away, beautiful, closest, deer, friends, grew, hampshire, looking, mile, most, neighbor, new, spend, survive, thing, through, time, tropical, up, walking, were, winter, woods , would Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
by Mark Wahlberg (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: every, makes, only, penny, sports, star, tiger, woods , worth 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.
by Tom Watson (born in 1949) keywords: anywhere, behind, come, fight, fire, fires, flames, know, move, rather, right, structure, than, up, where, wildfire, woods , your The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
by Gilbert White (Scientist, English , born in 1720) keywords: abrupt, birds, country, full, hills, live, parish, therefore, uneven, very , woods A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: ago, babies, baby, big, born, boys, carrie, even, girls, grandfathers, grandmothers, house, laura, left, little, long, ma, mary, pa, perhaps, small, their, time, today, very, were, wisconsin , woods But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: aunts, bringing, came, cousins, east, grandma, grandpa, gray, horses, pale, sky, through, uncles, wagons , woods They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: before, came, different, drove, had, laura, long, looked, mary, now, once, seen, snowy, through, till, town, way , woods A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: ago, babies, baby, big, born, boys, carrie, even, girls, grandfathers, grandmothers, house, laura, left, little, long, ma, mary, pa, perhaps, small, their, time, today, very, were, wisconsin , woods But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: aunts, bringing, came, cousins, east, grandma, grandpa, gray, horses, pale, sky, through, uncles, wagons , woods They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author, American , born in 1867) keywords: before, came, different, drove, had, laura, long, looked, mary, now, once, seen, snowy, through, till, town, way , woods
