Woods Quotes

Haven't you noticed most of your fairy tales take place in the woods?” a man a few feet from me says. He stutters and lets a belch escape him. “That's why we're out here. We were hoping Jimmi would bring enough damsels for us all, though!

~ Celia Mcmahon

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

~ Bill Willingham

If a tree falls in the woods when no one is there, does it still make a noise? If a girl dies in the woods when no one is there, does anyone care? If no one knows I am here, do I even exist?

~ Lisa Jahn-Clough

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

~ Timothy Goodwin

I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.

~ Peter Geye

Try this. O'Grady smiled. It's the only thing we drink. It'll warm your insides. What is it? Asked the ever cautious Waldo. We call it the Forest Flaming Special. Go ahead-drink up. Well, okay.... Waldo lifted the cup and nearly dropped it when saw his name printed clearly on the side. We've been expecting you. Explained Fred, beginning to laugh.

~ Donald Jeffries

He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.

~ Michael Montoure

As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe.She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the sun?It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognise her as the garden did. (The Pool)

~ Daphne Du Maurier

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.

~ Denis Johnson

I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest for very long, being all so much the same. But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I haven't been yet. Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds I've never seen in the fall (I've seen them in the summer - but that's a different pond). That list gets longer every year, the more I learn, and doubtless it will grow until the day I die. So many glades; so little time.

~ Bill Mckibben

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

~ Mark Wahlberg

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

~ Shaquille O'neal

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

~ John Fowles

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

~ George Washington Carver

I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.

~ David Mixner

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

~ Emily Carr

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.

~ John Wooden

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

~ M. Night Shyamalan

You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'

~ Richard Corliss

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

~ John Burnside

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

~ Gustav Stickley

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.

~ Gabriel Basso