Woodchucks Quotes

• As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

  →

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home   Dark   Woods  

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

  749

• The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

  →

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Animal   Rabbits   Plot  

  3167

• Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.

  →

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education   Boys   Men  

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.379, Penguin

  3342

• I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

  →

  Parker Posey

  Deer   Foxes   Bears  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  1814

• My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

  →

  Henry David Thoreau

  Enemy   Worms   Woodchucks  

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

  4325

• He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,” Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of ‘how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck’ to make me want to stake myself.

  →

  Jeaniene Frost

  Vampire   Want   Bones  

  5005

• How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

  →

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Latin   Siri   Woods  

  3544

• Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour him, partly for experiment's sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.

  →

  Henry David Thoreau

  Practice   Might   Sake  

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4959

• I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

  →

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness   Animal   Woodchucks  

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

  2749

• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  →

  Luther Burbank

  Children   Butterfly   Animal  

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

  2309

• Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.

  →

  Tim Allen

  Funny   Believe   Thinking  

  "An interview with Tim Allen". Interview to Laugh Factory Magazine, www.timallen.com. 1994.

  1146