Rory McCann Quotes

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.

I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

I grew up in a town with just under three hundred people in Western Australia. When you think about being six hours outside the second most isolated city in the world, which is Perth, and then you think about the town that I'm from, which is called Southern Cross, acting is not a possibility.

I joke that I'm in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won't be joking anymore.

I grew up on an island without TV.

I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and thought, I would rather live in a hut in the woods; a hut like the one of my first memories, with a clean-swept dirt floor, and a brown-eyed boy watching me from behind his mother's skirts as I watched him from behind mine.

I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.