Bob Ross Quotes

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.

He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

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

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Loneliness comes with life.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.