Terence McKenna Quotes

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.

I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

I love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.

The opportunity I had growing up in Montana isn't the opportunities for a whole lot of people.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

I just keep to myself and live in the country and visit the cities.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

I think when a lot of people hear the term 'country,' they step off from it.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.

I live in the middle of country so I walk a lot.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.