You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous. " And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk. " That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk.
We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p. m. Midnight. Later.
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?
Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church
Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, or in a remote wilderness we're featuring in one of my series - I love to be in the field and I love to explore.
To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.
Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig.
