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Quotes About Woods

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!
~ Bill Bailey
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.
~ Bill McKibben
Sergeant Woods has no expertise as a hangman—indeed, he fabricated a prewar history as an executioner in order to get the job.
~ Bill O'Reilly
I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
~ Bill Willingham
And here, it seems to me, is much of the secret of the charm of woods in England. A wood should never be vast. The best woods are small, a few acres in extent, not much more than copses. The word forest creates in the mind a feeling of grandeur, of something primeval.
~ H.E. Bates
There are those who talk of the evil spirit of the woods. But for me there is only one evil spirit of woods: the keeper. I suppose that, somewhere, there must be keepers who are pleasant, considerate, friendly men who love their wives and smile and exhibit other signs of common humanity. But it has never been my luck to meet one.
~ H.E. Bates
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victims body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, and sailed endlessly and languorously under strange stars.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It must, I thought as I viewed it, be the outcome of a fire; but why had nothing new ever grown over those five acres of grey desolation that sprawled open to the sky like a great spot eaten by acid in the woods and fields?
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Tales, besides, of buzzing voices in imitation of human speech which made surprising offers to lone travellers on roads and cart-paths in the deep woods, and of children frightened out of their wits by things seen or heard where the primal forest pressed close upon their dooryards.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It all began, old Ammi said, with the meteorite. Before that time there had been no wild legends at all since the witch trials, and even then these western woods were not feared half so much as the small island in the Miskatonic where the devil held court beside a curious stone altar older than the Indians.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and echoes like those ever fully die away, if somewhere in the woods my father's joyful yelps still bounced quietly off the trees. Silly thought, but there you go.
~ Harlan Coben
As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.
~ Emily Carr
Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
~ Samuel Rutherford
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
~ Robert Frost
The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.
~ W. H. Auden
paper that Tina had tossed
~ Sherryl Woods
Into the woods my Master went,Clean forspent, forspent.Into the woods my Master came,Forspent with love and shame.
~ Sidney Lanier
When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.
~ Simone Elkeles
I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.
~ Gary Snyder
The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.
~ Mervyn Peake
sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilderness she can enter be solaced believing the power that there be sacred place that there can be atonement now she returns with no fear facing the past ready to risk knowing these woods now hold beauty and danger
~ bell hooks
The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.
~ Bernice M Murphy Dr
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~ Stuart Woods