1.
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Matsuo Basho
2.
The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
Peter S. Beagle
3.
Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
Abu Hurairah
5.
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
6.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Alexander Graham Bell
7.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Frank Lloyd Wright
9.
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.
Theodore Kaczynski
10.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Thomas Hardy
11.
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
Charles Frazier
12.
It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
John Frusciante
14.
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...
Neil Gaiman
16.
I found things in the woods that I didn’t know I was looking for… and now I’ll never be the same.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
17.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl
18.
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
Dixie Lee Ray
19.
Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
Richard Pryor
20.
Come to the woods, for here is rest.
John Muir
21.
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
Jim Harrison
22.
Going into the woods, is going home
John Muir
23.
I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
Daniel Radcliffe
24.
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.
Mark Weiser
25.
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
Ansel Adams
26.
Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.
Darren Criss
27.
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
Jean-Baptiste Say
28.
That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.
Jeff Beck
29.
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
Gustav Klimt
31.
I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.
Daniel Boone
32.
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.
John Muir
33.
In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.
Horace Kephart
35.
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
Ted Hughes
36.
What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.
Thomas Bernhard
37.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38.
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.
George Washington Carver
40.
When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
41.
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
Alexander Hamilton
42.
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
Tom Waits
43.
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Dashiell Hammett
44.
Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
Ray Mears
45.
A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.
Robert Breault
47.
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Walter Scott
48.
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
John Muir
49.
I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.
Jeff Beck
50.
I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.
Norman Reedus