Bretton Woods

Bretton Woods can refer to:

  • Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, a village in the United States
    • Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, a ski resort located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
  • The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, more commonly known as the Bretton Woods Conference
  • The Bretton Woods system, the international monetary system created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference

Famous quotes containing the word woods:

    “In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)