Walks In The Woods Quotes by George Washington Carver, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Knapp and many others.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
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?
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, – to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a ‘New York Times’ crossword puzzle and a new episode of ‘Homicide;’ Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
