Quotes About A Walk In The Woods

#1. Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

Carl Jung

#2. Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

Mark Weiser

#3. A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

Brenda Strong

#5. A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

Dan Kiley

#6. Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...

Emily Carroll

#7. He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life.

Josh Lanyon

#8. I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

Rachel Carson

#11. I just sort of slid into it, like you'd go for a walk in the woods and fall into a crevasse and wind up in a cave full of rubies and emeralds.

Garrison Keillor

#12. My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

Joseph Bruchac

#13. In two weeks a man could completely refashion his history; he could walk all the way to Ohio or Iowa, change his name and his accent, disappear into another life. In the woods, footprints faded, the wind rose up to disperse of clothing, flesh became grass.

Alice Hoffman

#14. There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.

Jessica Stockholder

#15. Of all the tales in all the kingdoms in all the Woods, you had to walk into mine.

Soman Chainani

#16. If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#18. I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

Chelsea Cain

#20. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

John Muir

#21. There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun

#22. He'd come back to her, it was true. He was the one to walk out of the woods and onto the beach, to cross the space between them. But he wasn't the only one. It was there in her eyes: she was coming back to him too.

Jennifer E. Smith

#23. This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.
You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

Kat Howard

#24. Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

Robert Redford

#25. And i am a boy waiting-for the heat and fruitfulness of summer,waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. Walk without a stick into the darkest woods. Believe that the fairy tale is true.

Cheryl Strayed

#27. He won't walk the woods alone:
He'll only walk the heath.
He blanks out all the lives he's known,
But they survive beneath.

Kate Tempest

#28. It was awful. It was, like, walk out to the woods, Change, stand there until enough time passed, Change back. It was about as much fun as taking a shit."
"Nice analogy.

Kelley Armstrong

#29. I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

Charles Frazier

#30. Beauty is more than perfect features, Birdy. There's something about you that draws everyone to you, the way flowers turn toward the sun. You walk into a room and the place comes alive. You are beautiful, Birdy. All the more so because you don't even realize it.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#31. Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

Terri Windling

#32. The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Jay Woodman

#33. Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

Seth Adam Smith

#34. The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

Hal Borland

#37. Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#38. I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

Andie MacDowell

#39. So you're lost, uh? Happens a lot out here. You walk around for days, seeing things, losing your bearings, crying out for God, But He can't hear you. You can scream and scream but nobody'll ever hear you.

Craig Davidson

#40. never seen real darkness, not in the city, but how, if you stood peeing off the cabin porch on a moonless night, or took a walk through the woods where the treetops stitched out the stars, you could almost forget you were there, you felt invisible. Country dark, his mother called it.

Tom Franklin

#41. Jesus always kept it real: He always responded in a way that led one to the end of ones self and presented one with a clear choice: Will I walk away feeling challenged or will I walk with Him being changed.

R. Alan Woods

#42. My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

James Woods

#43. It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods.

Anne Ursu

#44. I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.

Flannery O'Connor

#45. You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.

Alexandra Adornetto

#46. It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace
the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#47. We have friends in every woods we walk through, though we walk through them not knowing.

Katherine Catmull

#48. I would like to share my life with you," he said. "I would like to marry you and have children with you. I would like you to help teach my boys to become fine young men. I want to walk through the woods with you and fall asleep with you beside the light of a fire.

Elizabeth Camden

#49. You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus by candle light".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#50. It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

Andrew H. Knoll

#51. "If we are truly the Lord's, we all walk with a limp" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

*Note: 'Jacobs Ladder'.

R. Alan Woods