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We’ve collected the best Woods Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Abraham Lincoln, John Burnside, Monty Don, Michael Finkel, Philipp Meyer. Use them as an inspiration.

1
My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.
Abraham Lincoln
2
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
John Burnside
3
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.
Monty Don
4
I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.
Michael Finkel
5
When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.
Philipp Meyer
6
I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.
Sean Bean
7
I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, ‘I’m a great player,’ or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fact. They just get out and do it. And I think that’s far more appealing… than talking about how good you are.
Arnold Palmer
8
When at home in Buckinghamshire, I tend to work out for two to three hours on the track or in the woods close by and then do weights.
Greg Rutherford
9
My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I’d live with aunts or uncles, then I’d run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
Gary Paulsen
10
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe
11
It’s OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, ‘In the Woods’: I could get it wrong as many times as I needed to.
Tana French
12
Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.
Sergio Garcia
13
I loved ‘Les Miz’ and ‘Into the Woods’ – I used to cast ‘Into the Woods’ with my friends, even if they’d never stepped on stage before.
Rory O’Malley
14
Tiger Woods is the epitome of what people should try to be like in this country.
Lara Trump
15
I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
16
My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality‘s nice. You never get bored. You can’t say the grass is always greener if you’re in both backyards.
Hilarie Burton
17
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.
Joyce Carol Oates
18
You can’t completely control the sport – Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature‘s own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford
19
If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it’s tomorrow‘s headlines.
Tim Finchem
20
I think, as an industry, we should be supportive of a broad subscription model and not do anything to jeopardize the potential health of the music business – because we’re not out of the woods yet.
Troy Carter
21
The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.
Jay Griffiths
22
I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.
Becky Hammon
23
When I go home, I love to play the ‘Tiger Woods’ game with my brothers. It’s always fun to sit there for a few hours and play.
Matt Cassel
24
I love ‘Into The Woods.’ I auditioned for a couple of productions since being in it at school but haven‘t been successful.
George Blagden
25
I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don’t make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that ‘lost in the woods’ feeling.
Joe Meno
26
Zach Woods loves to go jet-skiing. That’s a real thing in his real life. He’s obsessed with it.
Lennon Parham
27
It’s why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
Henry Rollins
28
I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I’m a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
Chris Evans
29
I remember talking to Xavier Woods about so many things and vignettes and backstages and these stories we could do between our crazy weird characters and their insane, obviously fun loving characters and all this stuff.
Aiden English
30
I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.
Jessie Reyez
31
If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make ‘Glory‘ now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
Edward Zwick
32
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
Dan Jenkins
33
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
John D. Voelker
34
This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I was a kid.
Robert Eggers
35
E and Woods are incredibly talented individuals that I am so blessed to have been grouped with these guys. To have met these guys in life, to have met such great guys that I call my family.
Kofi Kingston
36
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I’d try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
Amanda Plummer
37
When you get a job on ‘The Walking Dead’ you imagine you’re going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, ‘Look out!’
Dallas Roberts
38
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
Margaret Atwood
39
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun
40
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
Larry Fitzgerald
41
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that’s involves business and friendship – and the business part comes to an end – things always get a little blurry.
Hank Haney
42
I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do my wedges. Keep this in mind when hitting your fairway woods.
Ernie Els
43
Tiger Woods is someone I’d like to ask questions of. I’m fascinated to know about his life – everything he goes through, is he happy being Tiger Woods?
Nasser Hussain
44
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
Janine Turner
45
It’s important for us as a family to go and sit in the woods sometimes.
Stella McCartney
46
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y’know? I’m country.
Shelby Lynne
47
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
John Gregory Dunne
48
I don’t have contempt for Tiger Woods.
Dan Jenkins
49
I’m from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
Rachel Keller
50
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
John Burnside
51
Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That’s my release.
Chris Pratt
52
It’s flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he’s the best player in the world.
Ivan Lendl
53
Earl Hebner used to call me ‘Tiger,’ so I went with the last name Woods because I thought it was funny. I’m a huge fan of X-Men and, just, intelligence in general, and the leader in charge is named Prof. Charles Xavier. I took Xavier from him and put together the two names.
Xavier Woods
54
I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
Steven Tyler
55
I like to be out and about in the woods, in the quiet absorbing our amazing open spaces.
Michelle Wu
56
If you’re one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don’t leave early. You just don’t. If it’s a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don’t leave early.
Willie Geist
57
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. ‘Into the Woods’ follows that template, then asks, ‘What happens after Happy Ever After?’
Richard Corliss
58
My brother and I grew up in a setting in the woods very much like ‘The Witch’ in southern New Hampshire, and then we would drive up north to Maine to settings like ‘The Lighthouse’ for vacations.
Robert Eggers
59
If we want to make Tiger Woods’s or Al Gore‘s face, the best thing would be to have them come to our light stage so we can scan their faces for our database. But in a couple of hours, all we can do is find a face which looks similar and then correct it.
Jimmy Lai
60
Into the Woods,’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ – those were my religion.
Randy Rainbow
61
It’s not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.
Gloria Allred
62
In all honesty, I didn’t love reading when I was a kid. I’d rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
Jennifer McMahon
63
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
Gustav Stickley
64
I grew up in New England, and the woods behind my house seemed haunted by New England’s past.
Robert Eggers
65
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
66
Ray Bradbury’s connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
Sam Weller
67
To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.
Hank Haney
68
After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another, ‘Amethyst Journey‘ was born. The album is a collection of songs that are a combination of our outlook and inspirations – a response to current issues and the state of our planet.
Alaska
69
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
Nostradamus
70
I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.
Trixie Mattel
71
We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
72
I’ve learned from being in the woods that titles don’t mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words – even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act – people who want to run the river or climb the mountain – even if they’re not members of my political party.
Mark Udall
73
My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.
Joseph Bruchac
74
I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
Gallant
75
I can’t stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I’ve ever played golf with.
Stewart Rahr
76
I don’t think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he’s humble and he’s very good at what he does.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
77
Now Autumn‘s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham
78
Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.
Matt Kuchar
79
There’s a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who’s coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
Janet McTeer
80
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Georg Brandes
81
If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O’Neal
82
Sometimes, I would like to be alone in the woods and run and roll on the ground and play with my kids. And I do, and that’s what keeps me grounded.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
83
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
Quincy Jones
84
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It’s nothing fancy – just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
Kate Klise
85
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline – on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.
Sarah Churchwell
86
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody – one of the rednecks – would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we’d drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.
Miles Teller
87
Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?
John McEnroe
88
I love the outdoors and looking at snakes, squirrels, bugs – just going through the woods and being part of it. You can smell the different trees. And I listen. There’s so much you can learn by listening, by sitting and watching things happen.
Boo Weekley
89
I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He’s amazing – obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He’s really something.
John Wooden
90
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.
Robert Pinsky
91
Tiger Woods experienced perhaps the greatest fall from grace of any celebrity in American history.
Charlie Kirk
92
My father was a great outdoorsman. From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or on a lake. He taught me how to skin a rabbit and pluck a wild turkey. He showed me there is much more to nature than we can ever understand.
John Carter Cash
93
I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
Aidan Quinn
94
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Will Rogers
95
The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
Rachel Weisz
96
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
Alice Hoffman
97
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I’d be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
Charles Kuralt
98
I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who’s now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses.
Michael Mann
99
I’ve been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends – and if I could do it before I scared myself.
Patricia Briggs
100
Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek – it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.
James Murphy
101
I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
Steven Tyler
102
To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of global dialectic. I want there to be wilderness where there are no humans in a world like this. So nature is super important.
David Longstreth
103
I’m a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.
Peter Benchley
104
I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he’s intimidating.
Keegan Bradley
105
I’m not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game.
Richard Roundtree
106
We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.
Esther Rolle
107
When I was in high school, there’s no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
Adam Derek Scott
108
When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she’d built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.
Floyd Skloot
109
I don’t have my own garden; we’re on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.
Ruth Reichl
110
Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn’t. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
111
And we turned off and 30 miles south they’re standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.
Betty Hill
112
America has given me everything Australia couldn’t. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.
Stuart Appleby
113
Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.
Dan Jenkins
114
A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.
Matthew Desmond
115
Living in the woods is part of my origins, it’s like when I was a kid.
Pavel Nedved
116
I don’t know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
Shia LaBeouf
117
If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there’s something beneath the surface; there’s something older… more sinister.
Cullen Bunn
118
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Mary Hunter Austin
119
It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
Ma Long
120
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.
Caroline Knapp
121
Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well in Montreal, it’s crazy. It’s one of the best cities I eat in, but typical Quebec food is like food from people that work in the woods. It’s potatoes, meat and sauce.
Charlotte Le Bon
122
I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander off into the woods for hours. I’d bring a clipboard and think that I was doing some work out there, following the trails of raccoons or collecting bird feathers.
Tig Notaro
123
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
Gilbert White
124
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
Janos Bolyai
125
I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
Chad Coleman
126
Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.
Jim Fowler
127
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
128
I’ve grown up in Mumbai, did college from Mumbai, many colleges, actually – Jai Hind, Ruia, Andrews, Wilson, Whistling Woods… Then I worked as a production assistant with Prahlad Kakar, and then I started acting.
Prateik Babbar
129
As a modern-day role model, I’d have to go for Tiger Woods. I’m also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.
Mark Lawrenson
130
When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.
Emeril Lagasse
131
Tiger Woods has known Donald Trump… for many years, well before he became the president. He knows the true Donald Trump, not the one that the mainstream media tries to post up all the time.
Lara Trump
132
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
133
How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy’s got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He’s been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.
Rory McIlroy
134
My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn’t really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.
Nate Holland
135
I have my mountain man moments like hiking in the woods.
James Tupper
136
My childhood was basically divided between fishing and roaming the woods and hiding out in my bedroom. Maybe things would’ve turned out differently if I’d had a TV in there; who knows.
Jonathan Miles
137
Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
Randy Johnson
138
To my mind, ‘Dear Brutus’ stands halfway between Shakespeare‘s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s ‘Into the Woods’. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.
Michael Dirda
139
One of the big problems we had was, ‘Where are we going to put the trailer?’ So now they’ve found places – they did ‘A Walk in the Woods,’ they put it with that movie ‘War Room,’ they put it with ‘Ricki and the Flash.’
Adriana Trigiani
140
I just know that for my honeymoon, I’m not going to go to a cabin in the woods.
Rose Leslie
141
It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers. We all wanted to be like him.
Tony Finau
142
I’m honored to receive the support of former Republican candidate for governor, William Woods.
Andy Beshear
143
Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of time to be alone, and I like it. I always have. I like my own company. And I am not the only one who feels this way; a high percentage of the Norwegian population feel as I do.
Per Petterson
144
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg
145
We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can’t help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
146
We were running around in the woods telling stories and putting on costumes. We’re terrible actors, but we acted in everything that we did, and it was fun.
Matt Duffer
147
‘Cinderella‘ the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in ‘Into the Woods.’
Anna Kendrick
148
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn’t be room for anyone else.
Dana Delany
149
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron
150
No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.
Junior Seau
151
You can’t take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper
152
I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.
Lynn Jurich
153
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
M. Night Shyamalan
154
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.
Mary Oliver
155
My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.
Caitlin Kittredge
156
I’ve always loved the woods, and I’ve always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.
Lizz Wright
157
I grew up playing in the woods.
Nick Robinson
158
I saw ‘Into the Woods’ maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I’m very familiar with it.
Marc Platt
159
A man’s face is not a rich person’s lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man’s face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.
Ellie Kemper
160
Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn’t matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he’d find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
Lee Trevino
161
I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.
Tracy Chapman
162
It’s a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier – just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.
Lewis Hamilton
163
When things start to feel whacky I’ll either walk in the woods or ride or sit. I’ll then focus on wellness, affirmations and goals.
Yannick Bisson
164
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.
John Fowles
165
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
John Burroughs
166
I’m strong. I’m outspoken. I feel like I’m equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I’m still female. I’m very female.
Andie MacDowell
167
Choose upholstery that makes a big statement with texture, colour and design to define the space and colour that demands attention. Peacock blue with creams and warm woods looks amazing!
Hilary Farr
168
I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that’s just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn’t work very well. It can, but it’s three times as hard as it used to be.
Mike Schultz
169
The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom.
Richard Preston
170
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith
171
I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn’t get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it’s not the right thing to do. You’ve got to stay true to your family.
Max Schneider
172
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.
Clive Anderson
173
I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to live in a world without magic.
Anya Taylor-Joy
174
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who’s worth every penny he makes.
Mark Wahlberg
175
In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
Floyd Skloot
176
I like writing in total isolation like out in the woods somewhere.
Weyes Blood
177
Here in Central Texas, you drive west, you get the desert; you drive east, you get the woods; you’ve got water, you’ve got urban environments, you’ve got country. So you can hit a lot of notes.
Richard Linklater
178
The thing they don’t tell you about a Tough Mudder is that, for all the adrenaline pumping and barbed-wire-bicep-tattoo sporting, a lot of the day is fairly idyllic and contemplative. I hadn’t spent so much time jogging through the woods in years – or ever.
Josh Gondelman
179
We were the last generation to have the experience of going out with our friends to the woods or the train tracks and the only way our parents could connect with us was to say, ‘It’s time for dinner.’
Ross Duffer
180
The sport is not about one player, and I say that with a world of respect for his talents on the golf course. But the game is bigger than Tiger Woods.
Jim Nantz
181
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there’s no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter, which Tiger opened in the summer of 2015, spending a reported $8 million to make an upscale sports bar-and-restaurant in his image.
Steve Rushin
182
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.
Henry David Thoreau
183
It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington, D.C.
Gilbert Arenas
184
I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn’t have been riding.
Jo Brand
185
The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it’s blowing in your face. When you’re out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.
Willie Robertson
186
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.
Margot Lee Shetterly
187
With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women’s golf is getting better too.
Yani Tseng
188
How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.
Douglas Brinkley
189
I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.
Borns
190
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.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
191
I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they’re great.
RJ Barrett
192
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It’s on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.
Nick Kroll
193
I’d rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Tom Watson
194
I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.
Sam Elliott
195
I got to live through the Tiger Woods era and who knows who’s still to come.
Jim Nantz
196
There’s nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
Dan Jenkins
197
I remember living in a pretty small neighborhood where you could play in the streets and run around like crazy. My friends and I would ride our bikes around, but instead of just riding our bikes, we were solving crimes and going out in the woods to see what lay out there.
Maulik Pancholy
198
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
199
‘Plutona’ is the story of five kids who find the body of the world’s greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It’s about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.
Jeff Lemire
200
We’ve seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We’ve seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.
Max Joseph
201
‘The Polar Express‘ began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, ‘What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?’
Chris Van Allsburg
202
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
203
There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of ‘law,’ but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one’s neck of the woods.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
204
We’re in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ one thing after another, Kate Gosselin’s new body.
Philip Yancey
205
When you say ‘fear of the unknown‘, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it’s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we’re not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
206
I think I’ve gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it’s really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
Johnny Weir
207
I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
Matthew McConaughey
208
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.
Michael Winter
209
Well it’s not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It’s not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it’s not easy being Tiger Woods.
Hank Haney
210
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country… dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
Terry Gilliam
211
Here’s the thing about ‘Cabin in the Woods.’ I did virtually no research on this movie.
Drew Goddard
212
Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.
Daniel Espinosa
213
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
214
We have a lot of friends who are hunters. And you know what? Come hunting season, man, they head to the woods, you know. And again, this country was built on God and guns, folks. I mean, it really was.
Johnny Van Zant
215
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
Henry Timrod
216
I didn’t find it that hard to channel the animalistic side of ‘The Woman‘, I studied animals like apes and wolves, and researched how to throw off my feminine ways and just went out into the woods for a few days to learn how my body would feel if I had to do what she had to do.
Pollyanna McIntosh
217
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.
Matt Groening
218
I’ve been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I’d probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.
Norman Reedus
219
You don’t change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of ‘Save the Earth’ bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.
Alex Steffen
220
Into The Woods was… a lot of running around in the woods! I can’t wait to see the show again. People didn’t realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
Bernadette Peters
221
Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature’s in the past. It really doesn’t count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.
Richard Louv
222
I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods.
Natalie Prass
223
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we’d vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
Gabriel Basso
224
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that’s fancy.
B. Wayne Hughes
225
I’ve been doing theater for a long time, so that’s something I understand. I’m such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I’m still learning. It’s exciting.
William Jackson Harper
226
Broadchurch’ was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas ‘Dublin Murders’ has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality – particularly in the woods.
Killian Scott
227
I joke that I’m in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won‘t be joking anymore.
Kasie Hunt
228
I’ve been on ‘Criminal Minds‘ twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back – as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!
Elle Fanning
229
For me, I think the best part of all and the most fun was just being a part of such an amazing movie and such an amazing show because ‘Into The Woods’ is just so incredible.
Lilla Crawford
230
Who has connections to Connecticut? That’s where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O’Neal
231
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
William Blake
232
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
233
Does anyone actually think I’m going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he’s going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn’t work like that.
Hank Haney
234
I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
John Grogan
235
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.
Michael Koryta
236
We can argue about major championships and whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack’s 18 majors, but what can’t be argued is this: Tiger Woods is the most dominant, most skilled player we’ve ever seen.
Arnold Palmer
237
I like feeling warm inside a small home, knowing there’s a set of glowing eyes out in the woods somewhere. It’s just a vibe I enjoy writing about, and it deals simultaneously with safety and danger.
Aesop Rock
238
Tiger Woods and Roger Federer: those two are born winners.
Peter Crouch
239
‘In Search of Excellence’ – even the title – is a reminder that business isn’t dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool – and work that’s cool isn’t confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It’s available to all of us and any of us.
Tom Peters
240
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
Dan Jenkins
241
I love the woods even more than the ocean.
Steven Tyler
242
With its distinctly rural feel, the New York band Woods makes an ideal soundtrack for balmy walks amidst mammoth trees and crunchy beds of dead leaves.
Anthony Fantano
243
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
Steve Burns
244
I was at stage school in Birmingham Rep when I was called down to London for an audition in the National Theatre. Maximilian Schell, the film actor, was casting Tales from the Vienna Woods. He was looking at me for a small, but significant, role.
Toyah Willcox
245
These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling Stone was in a very real way connected to people practicing in the woods near my house while I was home doing my homework.
Phil Elverum
246
I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I’d spent about half the day in the woods.
Jeff Foxworthy
247
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods – three big windows look out into the trees.
Chuck Palahniuk
248
We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.
Roy Rogers
249
Sometimes I wonder if I’m just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life like I’m going to run every day and live in the woods in a cabin if I can – and here I am living in San Francisco and working in a studio.
Tycho
250
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That’s what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Terri Windling
251
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Wendell Berry
252
I like to buy a new fragrance for each film. I’ll go out in the city where I’m filming and snap it up. The one I have for ‘Into the Woods’ is Terry de Gunzburg Flagrant Delice, which I bought in London.
Anna Kendrick
253
It’s sometimes better to pretend I don’t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Dashiell Hammett
254
As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing for me.
Robert Eggers
255
I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like ‘Smallville,’ ‘Supernatural’… and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.
Cory Monteith
256
The themes and ideas embedded in ‘Into the Woods’ always spoke to me.
Marc Platt
257
I am always slightly mystified by the whole ‘Snow White‘ story. What are the chances of coming across that many diminutive men living in one house in the woods?
Sandi Toksvig
258
There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.
Carlos Tevez
259
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote ‘Woods,’ a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
James Lapine
260
I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.
Jennifer McMahon
261
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver
262
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
Monty Don
263
It’s fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there’s a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.
Andrew H. Knoll
264
I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I’m no stranger to that sort of landscape.
Alex Turner
265
I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but ‘Cabin In The Woods’ cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
Fran Kranz
266
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father – dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Whittaker Chambers
267
My dad was a great athlete. He started golf at a late age. He started me off real young and all of a sudden both of us got to where we were pretty good players. I was this 12-year-old thinking he was going to be the next Tiger Woods and all of a sudden, before you know it, I’m playing in the State Amateur.
Jim Justice
268
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don’t live in the woods by myself by the time I’m 25, I have failed.
Chris Evans
269
We weren’t playing much Dungeons and Dragons, we were mostly playing Magic the Gathering, but very similar. And we would go out in the woods and you felt like you were on these adventures.
Ross Duffer
270
As a child, I used to have a secret dread – and a recurring nightmare – of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.
W. S. Merwin
271
After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the location of every sett in the woods around my childhood home, but rarely saw them with my own eyes.
Steve Backshall
272
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
Lewis Thomas
273
I grew up in a small town in the woods of Estonia, and there was not much else around me besides nature. It was stunning, but I dreamt of meeting eccentric people and going exciting places. Music became my escape. I thought if I got good enough, I could leave.
Kerli
274
As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
Benjamin Hoff
275
I’d go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.
Anya Taylor-Joy
276
The costumes are insane on ‘Once Upon a Time.’ It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.
Ginnifer Goodwin
277
If you’re going to call a book ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,’ readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.
Adam Cohen
278
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
279
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people’s attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope ‘The Woods’ does that.
Harlan Coben
280
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.
George Washington Carver
281
Added to the rooster of courses, ‘Tiger Woods 10’ adds in seven new courses from the pristine Bethpage Black, home of this year’s U.S. Open, to the legendary Pinehurst. The Wii Weather Channel will even adjust the forecast to match the fairway because sometimes even the pros have to play in the rain.
Rob Manuel
282
The best days I have are usually days where I’m out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
Amy Ray