"Wood feeds the fire which burns it."
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"Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?"
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"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us."
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"When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost."
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"you must not use wood to put out the fire."
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"If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature."
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""One impulse from a vernal wood"
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"I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves."
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"If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes."
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"I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage."
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"I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit."
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"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."
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"It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods."
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"I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known."
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"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?"
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"As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read."
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods."
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"A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods."
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"Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?"
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"As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented."
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