Isak Dinesen Quotes

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

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 just love being in the middle of nowhere.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

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

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

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

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.

When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

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

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.