Woods

Famous quotes containing the word woods:

“Something startles me where I thought I was safest,
I withdraw from the still woods I loved,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmer’s barn. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A filmy trash
Litters the black woods with the death
Of men; and one last breath

Curls from the monstrous chimney. . . .”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)