Peaceful Setting Quotes

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

There is nothing like a long, breezy walk on Dartmoor to make me feel I have arrived in heaven. The beauty of creation is all around and I feel closer to the creator Himself.

I've got a great place, it's a country house.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife …

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph.

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

I love being able to record in a room that's surrounded by trees.

The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.