Tranquil Environment Quotes

This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

Each life needs its own quiet place.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

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.

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

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

Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

I am interested in silences

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.