Famous quotes containing the word woods:
“Thou waitest late and comst alone,
When woods are bare and birds are flown,”
—William Cullen Bryant (17941878)
“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled a contemplative mans recreation, introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalists observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative mans recreation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get. Until theyre strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree. And then to the sky.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)
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