Winter Woods Quotes:

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost

source: "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Sleep, Marathon Running, Broken Promises

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

- William Sharp

source: William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The silence of amor. Where the forest murmurs”

topic: Winter, Giving, Secret, Winter Woods

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....

- Robert Frost

topic: Dark, Promise, Lovely, Marathon Running, Good Poetry

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

topic: Nature, I Hate You, Heart, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Summer, Winter, Giving, Invincible Summer, Cold Weather

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

- Henry Beston

topic: Summer, Country, Fall, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

- Robert Frost

source: "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

topic: Thinking, Snow, House, Dark Woods, Winter Woods

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

- Edith Wharton

topic: Happiness, Butterfly, Winter, Monarch Butterfly, Caterpillars

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

- Hal Borland

topic: Winter, White, Bud, Winter Woods

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

source: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

topic: Love, Life, Yield, Mountain Ranges, Mountains And Valleys

This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

- Grace Paley

topic: Summer, Spring, Heart, Last Summer, Aspens