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“It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.”

Important Spirit Certain Nature Clear Buddhism Amount Solitude Being Yourself Just Being Very Happy Circuits New Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.”

Littles Persons Important Nature Powerful Buddhism Periods Solitude Mountain Checks Desert Weekend Cabins Powerful Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

Source: The Yosemite

“Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.”

Long Feelings Language Nature Solitude Mysterious Unconscious Inner Feelings

Author:Alexandra David-Neel

“When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.”

Seems Nature Influence Solitude Moon Shining Stillness Crowded Crowded Places

Book:Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].

Source: Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].

“I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.”

“There is no solitude in nature.”

Nature Solitude

Book:Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller

Source: Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller

“O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!”

Nature Sweet Solitude Delight Woods

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”

Love Found Nature Friendship Support Solitude Intimate Real Friends Sweetest My Friendship No Love Cute Friendship Intimate Friends

Book:Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream

Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream

“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”

Source: What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship

“Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.”

Science Individual Nature Natural Solitude Ill Aspiration Cradle Grandeur

Book:Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy