“ The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. Gustav Stickley
“ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr
“ I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair. Peter Geye
“ Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver
“ He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly… Michael Montoure
“ Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you… Bill Bryson
“ 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 it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods… M. Night Shyamalan
“ Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. John Muir
“ A hundred years or more, she's bent her crownin storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze.surviving all the random vagariesof this harsh world. A dense - twigged veil drifts downfrom crown along… Lauren Lipton
“ If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. Shaquille O'Neal
“ You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Wo… Richard Corliss
“ I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything, said Jane. Oh, I can easily understand that, said Anne thoughtfully. I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing… L.M. Montgomery
“ I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched th… David Mixner
“ These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness. George R.R. Martin
“ No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort of sad widowhood. Man had started to subdue these vacant expanses, th… Julien Gracq
“ Sometimes falling raincarries memories of betrayalthere in the woodswhere she was not meant to betoo young she believesin her right to be freein her bodyfree from harmbelieving naturea wilderness she… Bell Hooks
“ Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
“ As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read. Joyce Carol Oates
“ The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like gol… Jack Kerouac
“ It was the hour when snow goes blueand streetlights come on and a hare maypause on the tree line as still as a word in a book. Anne Carson
