
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
You cannot see the wood for trees.
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
“Come down off the cross, we can use the wood.”
"Come On Up To The House", Mule Variations (1999).
“Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.”
Statement at Rochefort (July 1815)
“I was in the woods a lot. And the woods for a child are magical.”
Starting Out, p. 9
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I started out just as a regular person, growing up in the Northwest. My father was a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, studying trees. So I was in the woods a lot. And the woods for a child are magical. I lived in what people call small towns. My world was what would be considered about a city block, maybe two blocks. Everything occurred in that space. All the dreaming, all my friends existed in that small world. But to me it seemed so huge and magical. There was plenty of time available to dream and be with friends.
I liked to paint and I liked to draw. And I often thought, wrongly, that when you got to be an adult, you stopped painting and drawing and did something more serious.
“They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen.”
On Pixar co-founders Alvy Ray Smith and Edwin Catmull, as quoted in TIME magazine (1 September 1986)
1980s
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“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”
Source: The Marriage Plot
in a speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007
Source: 1950s, The Skills of the Economist, 1958, p. 9