Georges Simenon Quotes

If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

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

There is just something about being out in open country, about seeing the sun rise over a pond, that's really beautiful.

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

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

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.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

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

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

I actually really like being in the woods.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

When I was a boy, one of my favorite places to go was a pine-filled hollow high on the mountain behind our house. It was a place where the industrial song of Coalwood subsided. I would sit on a dead log and listen to nothing except the beating of my own heart and the thoughts racing through my head.

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

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Because I live in London I'm always at busy places like airports and gigs. When you're up in the mountains the air's so clean and there's nature and the awesomeness of the slopes. It makes me reflective and think about the bigger picture.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.