Peaceful Surroundings Quotes

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.