Ethan Canin Quotes

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

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

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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

I like my home and I like the nature.

I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.

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

When I'm home, I'm relaxed.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

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

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

I enjoy an easy jog. In the mountains, or the forest with my own thoughts, I can escape from the world for a bit.

My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

My folks have a cottage north of Kingston, which is literally in the middle of nowhere, and I can be there very happily for like a week.

I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat.

There is nothing - nothing - that beats being in the jungles. It's so easy to just sit and meditate there.

I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.