{"quotes":[{"text":"For this entire walk, my desire had ashamed me, as if my wanting to be kissed that night mitigated the fault of Junior's sudden deafness. I'd been given stacks of reasons to blame myself for an act of violence committed by another. I had blamed my flirting for his subsequent felony. My college taught me: my rape was my shame. Everyone I'd trusted asked only what I might have done to let it happen. In my gut, I'd always believed I'd caused it.I finally questioned it.","author":"Aspen Matis","tags":["aspen-matis","girl-in-the-woods","love","memoir","self-realization","truth","woods"],"id":1916,"author_id":"Aspen+Matis"},{"text":"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["solitude","woods"],"id":4953,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"Management' of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.","author":"Bill McKibben","tags":["conservation","environmentalism","humility","woods"],"id":11143,"author_id":"Bill+McKibben"},{"text":"Keith traced my face, traced my hands and traced my body as the crickets chirped a love song and I lost myself in his eyes that stroked my soul and punctured my heart, like a poison arrow in a shooting star.","author":"Aishabella Sheikh","tags":["crickets","dreams","fairytale","fantasy","keith","lavinia","poisonous-love","stars","woods"],"id":20341,"author_id":"Aishabella+Sheikh"},{"text":"It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.","author":"Benjamin Rush","tags":["forest","nature","society","woods"],"id":21614,"author_id":"Benjamin+Rush"},{"text":"...We do not own these woods. They own us.","author":"Timothy Goodwin","tags":["biology","ecology","nature","riverfeet-press","wilderness","woods"],"id":22333,"author_id":"Timothy+Goodwin"},{"text":"We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["beauty","speech","woods"],"id":23644,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort of sad widowhood. Man had started to subdue these vacant expanses, then had grown weary of eating into it, and now even the desire to preserve what had been claimed had perished. He had established everywhere an ebb, a sorrowful withdrawal. His cuttings into the forest, which were seen at long intervals, had lost their hard edges, their distinct notches: now a thick brushwood had driven its sabbath into the broad daylight of the glades, hiding the naked trunks as high as their lowest branches.","author":"Julien Gracq","tags":["forest","time","woods"],"id":24697,"author_id":"Julien+Gracq"},{"text":"And we will meet in the woods far far away from this hustle and bustle... And share love and sunshine.","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["forest","life-is-an-adventure","love","meaning-of-life-is-relationships","meaning-of-love","nature","sunshine","woods"],"id":29347,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating,over the woods with its finest transparency,glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["atmosphere","dew","earrings","fanciful","fancy","forest","love","lovely","natural-laws","nature","nithin-purple","nithinpurple","poesy","poetic-justice","poetry","pristine","quotes","of-life","romance","thoughts","transparency","venus","venusandcrepuscle","wet","wildflowers","wisdom","woods","words"],"id":30835,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}