Isabella Bird Quotes

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

I like silence.

I really love peace and quiet.

The world is quiet here.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

Silence is a still noise.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Silence is best.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Only silence perfects silence.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

It was enough just to sit there without words.

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.