Joanna Baillie Quotes

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

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 live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

I live a pretty simple life.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.