Ian Frazier Quotes

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

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.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

I need the sea because it teaches me

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

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Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.