Edith Wharton Quotes

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

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

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

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.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

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.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.

I really like walking through Brompton Cemetery. It's really peaceful.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.