Wood Quotes

The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned
Edward Hand

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
Lawrence Hargrave

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
Dixie Lee Ray

The block of wood should not dictate to the carver
Maori Proverb

No Wood without Bark.

Can't see the wood for the trees

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.







Interesting Reads
Books About Wood
Related Quotes
Quotes with Keyword Wood