Woods or a Forest?

I call most areas woods. I think of forests as really large (multiple hundreds of acres or more). Such as a state forest or large park.

 

I think only time I use Forrest
Is old growth Forrest
Or Robin Hood cause he was running through Forrest with little John

 

Definitely woods.

 

I always associated the woods as a smaller area of trees and a forest a much larger area that stretches for miles. I call the area behind me the woods, it's not a huge area approx 1 sq mile and it eventually leads to roads on all four sides of it.

 

When I go for a walk I walk in the Woods!

 

When it's off to grandmother's house we go, you go over the river and though the woods, not a forest.

 

.....and speaking of forests - New England has the most beautiful forest in the U.S., according to Fodor's | Boston.com

Just one 0f WeldrDave's reasons for moving north and east

 

Forest - trees planted by man to be harvested in 80-120 years to make lumber

Woods - natural grown, untouched...wilderness


Anything else is just brush...there are more words for it in krauttalk but ill spare you.



A Forst/Forest in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania...Pinetrees for miles.
Took the picture while hunting.

 

"Back 40"
It's like the way we say we "gotta go pick some flowers" when you have to pee among the sensitive in the car.
Woods, forest, woodland,..................

 

In my area I don't have a forest road I have a wood road!

 

On the subject of Krautsprach... I went to Germany on vacation and someone asked me what the difference was between Freedom and Liberty. I didn't have a good answer for him, besides Freedom was the Anglo-Saxon/Germanic word (like Freiheit) and Liberty came from Latin (Libertad). Is there a subtle difference between Wald und Forst, as in English?