Wood Quotes

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. (George Carlin)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. View quote
Henry Ford
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. View quote
Robert Frost
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. View quote
Francis Bacon
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. View quote
William Wordsworth
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. View quote
Jean Cocteau
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave. View quote
Temple Grandin
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. (Kenneth Grahame)
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . . Sabbath-less Satan! View quote
Charles Lamb
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. View quote
William Blake
Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
O Caledonia stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood. View quote
Walter Scott
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. View quote
Albert Einstein
It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different. View quote
Robin Trower
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost. View quote
Dante Alighieri
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock the holly whistles as it battles with itself the ash hisses amid its quiverings the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. (Thomas Hardy)
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things, and the more his understanding is enlightened. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. View quote
Henry Moore
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. View quote
James Frazer
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the "chosen people." View quote
Simone Weil