Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Come to the woods, for here is rest.”
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John of the Mountains, 1938
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Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838–1914Related quotes
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), The Wood (1846)
James Dickey
(1923–1997) American writer
The Heaven of Animals (l. 1–6).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)
“No good comes from being in the woods.”
Clarence Thomas
(1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
On the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a Supreme Court Justice; reported in Robert Barnes, " For 25 years, it has been Clarence Thomas v. Controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/after-25-years-supporters-praise-clarence-thomas-but-controversy-is-always-near/2016/10/30/3fba40e4-9d24-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1", Washington Post (October 30, 2016).
2010s
“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”
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Source: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
“Come down off the cross, we can use the wood.”
Tom Waits
(1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Come On Up To The House", Mule Variations (1999).
“There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”
Ted Hughes
(1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
Nathanael Greene
(1742–1786) American general in the American Revolutionary War
Letter to George Washington (November 1779)