Charles Lamb Quotes

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

Quiet is better than loud.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

After all is said and done, sit down.

When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected. In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love - but not too many of them.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

Because I live in London I'm always at busy places like airports and gigs. When you're up in the mountains the air's so clean and there's nature and the awesomeness of the slopes. It makes me reflective and think about the bigger picture.

Actually I love asparagus.

When you're surrounded by majestic Norwegian nature, it's very easy to start thinking about stuff you don't have time to in everyday life.

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.