Thoreau Woods Quote Quotes

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. ~ Henry David Thoreau

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit ... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods? ~ Henry David Thoreau

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact ... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold. ~ Henry David Thoreau

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The wildest sound ever heard makes the woods ring far and wide. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants. ~ Henry David Thoreau

'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life. ~ Henry David Thoreau

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. ~ Henry David Thoreau

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. ~ Henry David Thoreau

There is a low mist in the woods
It is a good day to study lichens. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. ~ Chris Matakas

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. ~ Henry David Thoreau

'Let your yes be yes and your no be no for anything other than that is evil' NT (passim). This quote is not an adequate argument for 'anti-intellectualism' or the position that Reason & Faith are antithetical ".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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. ~ Henry David Thoreau

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body ~ Henry David Thoreau

Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods. They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and improved their time. Men of business, even farmers, thought only of solitude and employment, and of the great distance at which I dwelt from something or other; and though they said that they loved a ramble in the woods occasionally, it was obvious that they did not. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side the richer which sees it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection. ~ Henry David Thoreau

it is remarkable that the wild apple, which I praise as so spirited and racy when eaten in the fields or woods, being brought into the house, has frequently a harsh and crabbed taste. The Saunter-er's Apple not even the saunterer can eat in the house. ~ Henry David Thoreau

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all. ~ Henry David Thoreau

One large bundle held their all - bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens - all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We are all out-on-loan to one another by God". ~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The Father is always intimately entwined in our struggles".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,
and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I use Facebook to broadcast my intellectual luggage".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

No one is perfect and perfectly holy but God alone".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Be wary of any man who says he has no enemies"

~ R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I am definitively not a 'universalist'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

My life is an open book; at least this photo album".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

No one should ever take them self or others too seriously."

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

How much more respectable is the life of the solitary pioneer or settler in these, or any woods - having real difficulties, not of his own creation, drawing his subsistence directly from nature - than that of the helpless multitudes in the towns who depend on gratifying the extremely artificial wants of society and are thrown out of employment by hard times! ~ Henry David Thoreau

A gift twice given is a gift most cherished ~ R. Alan Woods

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Truth inevitably pierces its target, the hearts of men".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

God has a part for all of us to fulfill and every part is vital".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

I have often been accused of being obtuse, however one must dig well below the top-soil to get my drift".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Yet, we must never 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

God can, will, and does speak to us through our dreams".

~R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

I think someone, somewhere, at some time once said, 'Nuance is a bitch!' ".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Not when tradition is built upon Truth".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

I jus luvs me some lily white turkey
meats".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

We have all been called to be foot-washers".

~R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Faith without any accompanying action is suspect".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Jesus being the embodiment of the Truth thus makes everything He says 'essential' and Eternally valid".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Don't get me wrong, I like NASCAR and shopping at Nordstrom's, but discipleship is intrinsic as a lifestyle."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

I am not in full alignment with Preteristic theology per se, however I could say that I may be a 'partial preterist'."

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems".

~R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

The world and it's people are my church".

~R. Alan Woods [1996] ~ R. Alan Woods

If you don't like the weather in southern Ohio, just wait fifteen minutes!!!".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

I decided someday to become a Thoreau of the Mountains. To live like Jesus and Thoreau, except for women. ~ Jack Kerouac

The mystery of Evil and its origin & purposes".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Hear what I say, and not how I look."

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The head and the heart are not separate, but rather like intimate friends who work together sharing their experiences which enrich our lives and those of others".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'."

~R. Alan Woods [1998] ~ R. Alan Woods

I have struck out more times than I can count, but I have hit many home runs as well".

~R. Alan Woods {2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace.
R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical"

~R. Alan Woods [2007] ~ R. Alan Woods

Freedom for freedoms sake."

~R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Jehovah, the great and mighty God of Israel, protects and gives His warriors victory over His enemies, Selah."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

This is how I roll: Joined with Jesus at the hip rid'in the roller coaster to the end which is the beginning of Life eternal"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Although we do nothing for God unto others perfectly, He nonetheless smiles upon and empowers our best efforts".

~R. Alan Woods [2010] ~ R. Alan Woods

I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)".

~R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

Christ's humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

Me, myself, and I enjoy our own company immensely. ~ R. Alan Woods

"Being most concerned with God's righteous judgments rather than the biased judgments of mere men, I have been standing...for the cause of Christ".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

This ain't my first rodeo!".

~R. Alan Woods [1999] ~ R. Alan Woods

In my opinion, we will always be sinners in need of our Savior, Jesus Christ."

~R. Alan Woods [2007] ~ R. Alan Woods

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if anyone should ever for a just cause grieve. Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself? ~ Henry David Thoreau

The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity".

~R. Alan Woods [1999] ~ R. Alan Woods

Forgiveness is a practiced and fervrent process".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

We plant, God grows"

~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

People respond when they are taught, and that primarily by example, rather than preached at. Jesus modeled just this approach in His life."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me. ~ John Cage

So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"

~R. Alan Woods [2013] ~ R. Alan Woods

God gives gifts to and also of men/women for His purposes in promoting the cause of Christ and His Kingdom".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

If the colander is perforated, then the hole filled vessel is irrelevant".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

Character is what we do when no one else is watching"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods