Dervla Kirwan Quotes

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

If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife …

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

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.

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 usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place.

I actually really like being in the woods.

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

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

Silence is best.

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.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

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?

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

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

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

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.