- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woods Quotes
On nature, quiet, and childhood spaces that shaped the imagination.
Several lines treat woods as something worth protecting, recalling a childhood worry that cities might eventually replace every open, wild space. Read more in our Nature quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought 'Cabin in the Woods' was really incredible.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a modern-day role model, I'd have to go for Tiger Woods. I'm also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
- Nov 07, 2020