Viggo Mortensen Quotes

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

Life is such a beautiful thing. When you sit for a moment during the day and live that particular moment, everything seems perfect.

There is nothing - nothing - that beats being in the jungles. It's so easy to just sit and meditate there.

I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.