Woods

Famous quotes containing the word woods:

    “At last he rose, and twitch’d his mantle blue,
    Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “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)

    “I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)