Boxes Quote by Ella Maillart

We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

— William Cowper

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual…

— Ansel Adams

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look…

— Cormac McCarthy

But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the…

— Tom Ford

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed,…

— Henry David Thoreau

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

— Ian Mcewan

Better immersion than to live untouched.

— Tillie Olsen

I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we…

— Natalie Maines

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try…

— Dries Mertens

The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists,…

— Anonymous

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder…

— Frederick Lenz