Pete Townshend Quotes

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

I like being by the ocean.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

I'm off to sit on a cliff.