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Quotes About Wood

There was the sound of the snapping of wood in the garden, and all was perfect stillness again. The lungs seemed breathing in, not air, but a sort of ever-youthful power and joy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
pues no todo en el fuego es claridad, sino también leña bruta, y ceniza, y humo...
~ Leopoldo Lugones
Two-thirds of his collarbone, and most of his right shoulder and biceps, now appeared to be composed of a smooth, highly polished fruitwood
~ Lev Grossman
For instance, many wood and paper products that are offered to consumers for sale carry labels making pro-environmental claims such as "for every tree felled, at least two are planted." However, a survey of 80 such claims found that 77 could not be substantiated at all, 3 could be only partially substantiated, and almost all were withdrawn when challenged.
~ Jared Diamond
These are the objects of my prayers. A plot of land – not so very large. A garden, a spring beside the house, its water ever-flowing, and a small wood on a slope.
~ Tom Holland
You want listeners to smell the lavender, to feel the point of those knitting needles in a handbag of the granny who happens to harbor a loyalty to Madame Defarge. You want the listener to know the wood's burning in the stove when they walk into the song with me. Music is about all of your senses, not just hearing.
~ Tori Amos
Grandmother sat in the magic forest and carved outlandish animals. She cut them from branches and driftwood and gave them paws and faces, but she only hinted at what they looked like and never made them too distinct. They retained their wooden souls...
~ Tove Jansson
This is from me. For all the thousands of bad guys in your life." She gave a meaningful look to Ezra. Then she smugly held up a case. Montgomery popped the catches and opened the top. Oh, my gosh," she said. Inside was a single piece of sharpened wood. MR POINTY!" she screamed in delight. You gave Buffy's weapon...her stake...to the cheerleader ," David said with a whistle. "Sheer genius.
~ Unknown
Hotel-Room Coffee Tables I'll admit to this one. They're just not as sturdy as they look. It's really hard to find wood glue at 9 a.m., before checkout.
~ Tristan Taormino
toothpick claw things
~ Tui T. Sutherland
And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?
~ Unknown
Where Did The Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-Energy Technology on 9/11, by Judy Wood, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
~ Unknown
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.
~ Dave Barry
Whilom, as tells the tale, was a walled cheaping-town hight Utterhay, which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great highway which went from over the mountains to the sea. The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof.
~ William Morris
Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.
~ William Shakespeare
the back of the building. As he expected, he found the proprietor building a coffin. The pieces of wood were varnished and decorated with fancy scrollwork depicting cherubs and flowers. Somebody important would be laid to rest in that coffin. "Looks like you already have some business," Luke said to the man. "I've brought you another customer." The undertaker was in his thirties, a dark-haired man with broad
~ William W. Johnstone
Aveva visto il gelo disegnare motivi simili a foglie sul vetro, gocce di pioggia scorrere come lacrime su vecchie guance, il primo sole di primavera splendere polveroso sul tappeto turco e sulle assi di quercia macchiate del pavimento.
~ Winston Graham
Uno starnuto attirò l'attenzione di Ross, che spostò lo sguardo e vide Demelza attraversare il cortile con una pila di ciocchi nel grembiule. Stava piovendo e lei non aveva il cappello. Alle sue spalle, Garrick, che crescendo era diventato alto e sgraziato, saltellava come un barboncino, nero, senza coda e con chiazze di pelo riccio. Ross fu sul punto di scoppiare a ridere.
~ Winston Graham
Tabitha Bethia, la gatta rognosa, miagolava allungandosi e stiracchiandosi davanti al fuoco e un ciocco di legno si spostava nel focolare sbriciolandosi in cenere.
~ Winston Graham
He looked, as always, as if he had been carved from some durable form of wood by someone who was taking a correspondence course in sculpture and had just reached his third lesson.
~ Unknown
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.
~ Woody Allen
The balls were dry as wood, you had to lick and suck at them before they tasted like sour cherries. If you chewed them well, the pit felt very smooth and hot on the tongue. Those night cherries were a happy thing, but they only sharpened our hunger.
~ Herta Muller
There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.
~ Holly Black
The knife is my hand is useless. I throw it at the desk, barely registering as the point sinks into the wood. He pulls back from me at the sound, startled. His mouth is pink, his eyes dark. He sees the knife and barks out a startled laugh. page 309
~ Holly Black