Quotes on Winter Woods

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.