Best seasons & woods Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.”

Firsts Country Felt Seasons Luck Woods Smell Forests Evening Smoke Tea Autumn September Curtains Good Luck Begin Again

Book:More Was Lost: A Memoir

Source: More Was Lost: A Memoir

“A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”

Men Generations Wind Spring Seasons Woods Cease Iliad

Author:Homer

“The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).”

Years Growing Cost Benefits Seasons Dollars Rate University Illness Productions Woods Billions Thanks Mortality Construction Modest Fiber Yale Morbidity Yale University

Author:Joseph L. Bast

“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

Heart Found Sun Food Wall Promise Seasons Weight Cooking Woods Culinary Rats Pulse Dungeons

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.”

Made Real Whole Seasons Shining Glasses Woods Judged Arrangements Virgins Curves Outlines Unprecedented Old Lady Satin

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”

Littles Book Moments Asks Seasons Dollars Plant Woods Idiot Employers Fractions Frantic

Book:Nightwoods: A Novel

Source: Nightwoods: A Novel

“Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.”

Men Earth Dies Grows Generations Wind Spring Seasons Winter Blow Woods Down To Earth Spring Season

Author:Homer

“Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.”

Littles Book Asks Healing Seasons Plant Woods Frantic

Book:Nightwoods: A Novel

Source: Nightwoods: A Novel

“Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.”