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Woods Quotes

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Thomas Hardy (2011). “Under the Greenwood Tree: Or the Mellstock Quire: a Rural Painting of the Dutch School”, p.9, The Floating Press

The woods are full of long drivers.

Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke (1835). “The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His Spelling Modernised, His Rhythm Accentuated and His Obsolete Terms Explained; Also Have Been Added a Few Explanatory Notes and a New Memoir of the Poet”, p.103

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press