297 Quotes About Woods
- Author Stephen King
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...she had the top down and I could smell everything in those woods, and you know what an old fine smell that is, like something which has been mostly left alone and is not much troubled.("Mrs. Todd's Shortcut")
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- Author Michael Poeltl
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Who else goes to the woods to find peace only to discover themself in the process? I find forests unclutter the mind with each breath the trees afford me.
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- Author Emily Tesh
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He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart.
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- Author William Wordsworth
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The sounding cataractHaunted me like a passion: the tall rock,The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,Their colours and their forms, were then to meAn appetite; a feeling and a love,That had no need of a remoter charm,By thought supplied, nor any interestUnborrowed from the eye.
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- Author Louise Dickinson Rich
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I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.
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- Author Patricia A. McKillip
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I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live like a bird or a fox through the winter, and leave the things I had glimpsed to resolve themselves without me.
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- Author Maggie Stiefvater
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The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.
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- Author Denis Johnson
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He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.
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- Author James Mark Miller
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Each year, the townsfolk selected one child to give to the woods.The woods gave one in return.So far, the dryad student exchange program had been a wonderful success.
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