Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

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

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

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.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife …

I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills surrounded by trees, and I have, like, a mom and two baby deer that come by all the time, and my dogs and the squirrels are in a full-on feud every morning.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I love tranquil solitude.

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.