Woods

Famous quotes containing the word woods:

“Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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