"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."
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"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one."
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"It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time."
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"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"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least."
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"The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood."
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"Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it."
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"Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned."
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"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
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"I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10."
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"Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood."
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"I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach."
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"I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'"
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"With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity."
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there."
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"In the woods is perpetual youth."
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"Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally."
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