The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking of the island… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
“Tada mi je padala na um čudna, obeshrabrujuća misao da je u teškom položaju čovjek koji je duhovno razvijeniji od drugih, ukoliko… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion… As well might we expect a patient to recover without food… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
“Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
![“Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.” quote by Zhang Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/zhang-xin-16964_china_country-china-needs-to-continue-opening_1957044.jpg)
![“The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get…” quote by Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/jared-diamond-2519_able_the-metaphor-is-so-obvious-easter-island_2058444.png)
![“I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the main city, and [it gave me] this feeling of isolation and also being close to nature, with nature as a surrounding and also a frontier, from the society…” quote by Lucile Hadzihalilovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/337/lucile-hadzihalilovic-33563_bits_i-used-to-live-in-a-little-city-by-the-s_981114.jpg)
