Mark Burnett Quotes

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

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

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.

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.

People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.

Once in a while, the universe lets you be free alone and in peace.

No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.

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.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

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

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

On all the peaks lies peace.

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 have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

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

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.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

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.

I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.