Woods

Famous quotes containing the word woods:

    “It is a common accident for men camping in the woods to be killed by a falling tree.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “but as an Eagle
    His cloudless thunderbolted on thir heads.
    So vertue giv’n for lost,
    Deprest, and overthrown, as seem’d,
    Like that self-begott’n bird
    In the Arabian woods embost,
    That no second knows nor third,
    And lay e’re while a Holocaust,
    From out her ashie womb now teem’d
    Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
    When most unactive deem’d,
    And though her body die, her fame survives,
    A secular bird ages of lives.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Thou waitest late and com’st alone,
    When woods are bare and birds are flown,”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)