Justin Vernon Quotes

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

I'm off to sit on a cliff.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

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.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

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.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

I have gone to the forest.

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife …

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

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

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

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

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 actually really like being in the woods.