Robert Eggers Quotes

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

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.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

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

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

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

I love to be surrounded by nature.

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

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

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

On all the peaks lies peace.

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

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?

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.