Quotes About Walks In The Woods

#1. Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and peering at mushrooms. Writing reviews. Coming from frumpy, grumpy, faded-at-the-knees Winnipeg.

Ariel Gordon

#2. My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

Caroline Knapp

#3. There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.

Kate Inglis

#4. The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books ...

George Washington Carver

#6. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

Aisha Tyler

#9. Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.

J.P. Donleavy

#10. If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

Joyce Meyer

#11. When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.

Simone Elkeles

#12. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.

Enuma Okoro

#13. Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.

Toba Beta

#14. DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

Bryan Sykes

#15. Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

Kin Hubbard

#16. O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

William Shakespeare

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

Ivan Turgenev

#19. And when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

Rudyard Kipling

#20. Or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#21. We are to derive worth from God alone and to love without judgment and without conditions on the basis of the unsurpassable fullness of life we get from God. Our only job is to love, not judge.

Gregory A. Boyd

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#24. Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

Tom Petty

#26. The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death ...

James Woods