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Quotes About Wood

I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!
~ William Temple
The sounding cataractHaunted me like a passion: the tall rock,The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,Their colors and their forms, were then to meAn appetite; a feeling and a love,That had no need of a remoter charm,By thought supplied, nor any interestUnborrowed from the eye.
~ William Wordsworth
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
~ William Wordsworth
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild
~ William Wordsworth
We are still nearer the winter edge of spring on this cool and misty May afternoon, the scent of wood smoke in the air — a remnant of the afternoon fire.
~ David Sheff
Il dressa en face de mes yeux une de ces musiques à bouche qu'on achète dans les foires : du fer et du bois.
~ Jean Giono
Her keel members were four pieces of solid oak, one above the other
~ Alfred Lansing
Her sides were made from oak and Norwegian mountain fir
~ Alfred Lansing
there was a sheathing from stem to stern of greenheart, a wood so heavy it weighs more than solid iron
~ Alfred Lansing
Next time I don't care if you get shot or your balls are stuck in a wood chipper," he says. "You don't come in without a mask.
~ Richard Kadrey
There's a dream in the space between the hammer and the nail: the dream of about-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail will take the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.
~ Richard Siken
A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No silly hood upon her head. She said, 'Hello, and do please note My lovely furry wolfskin coat.
~ Roald Dahl
Never and never, my girl riding far and near In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep, Fear or believe that the wolf in the sheepwhite hood Loping and bleating roughly and blithely shall leap, my dear, my dear, Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped year To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood.
~ Roald Dahl
The rifle was mottled with a synthetic preservative that smelled like overripe peaches. The stock and pistol grip were made of a bright orange wood that was slick with the preservative. The Russians had gone to polymer stocks, but the Chinese still went with the wood. Pike opened the bolt to inspect the receiver and breech. They were flawless.
~ Robert Crais
The front door was a standard wood entry, stained dark to match the house. A Master deadbolt was set in the frame above the knob lock. Cole pulled on a pair of vinyl gloves, selected a pick and a tension wrench from his pick kit, and went to work. Two minutes for the deadbolt, one for the knob. On-the-job training courtesy of the United States Army. Cole
~ Robert Crais
The rifle was mottled with a synthetic preservative that smelled like overripe peaches. The stock and pistol grip were made of a bright orange wood that was slick with the preservative. The Russians had gone to polymer stocks, but the Chinese still went with the wood. Pike opened the bolt to inspect the receiver and breech. They were flawless. Stone
~ Robert Crais
She'd told me an Empress could fashion wood into whatever shapes she liked; in my pocket was a wedding ring for Aric that I'd painstakingly crafted. I'd figured the band would need to be as resilient as metal, so I'd chosen one of the strongest trees in the world: lignum vitae. Latin for wood of life.
~ Kresley Cole
floor and keep the fire fed with wood. Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she
~ L. Frank Baum
The creature is made of wood, replied the captain. Your magic will not work on wood, you know.
~ L. Frank Baum
That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary's greatest curatives —gratitude.
~ Geoffrey Wood
The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood. Any
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
~ Guy Finley
A soaking rain had just stopped, and his boots sank deeply into the nitrogen-rich soil. The entire orchard smelled of wet wood and ripe fruit. It was a strong dizzying scent, and nothing else was quite like it- though his grandfather used to say this smell was identical to the limestone caves of Lower Normandy: cold and dripping, where cask upon cask of Calvados, the great fortified apple brandy of Norman lords, slept away the years.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff