Diane Ackerman Quotes

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

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.

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.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

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

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

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

When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

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

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.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

I'm off to sit on a cliff.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.