“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.” KidsPastGamesFrontsTvsComputerWoodsElectronicsComputer Games Author:Richard Louv
“We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.” KidsPastWoodsIllegalElectronicsBoogeyman Author:Richard Louv
“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.” KnowsMenWellsEnoughFactsHomeRunningJobsPastCertainKnow HowTakenBrokenMen And WomenWoodsDecadesMagazinesAssumptionShopsArticlesTransfersSuggesting Author:Robert Briffault
“By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.” LongEarthPastFormGivenHeavenMemoriesWhiteTreeWoodsSpotsMelancholyPoolAgonyGreySighTravellerSwampsWanderersToadsNewtsPast MemoriesAghast Book:The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms Source: The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms
“A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.” PeopleFeelingsPastRoomsCitiesFireDistancePhotographWoodsAbsenceLandscapeEroticTokensUnattainablePseudoReverieDesirabilityIncitement Book:On photography Source: On photography
“The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.” WayPastTreeRootsInsightWoodsSunshineListenersPast LifeGleam Author:James F. Cooper