Nature Quote by Herman Melville

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

— Herman Melville

“With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under…

— Graham Greene

“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.…

— Alexander Pope

“Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues…

— R.W. Schmidt

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed…

— Chief Luther Standing Bear

“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few…

— Mary Oliver

“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel…

— Maria Firmina dos Reis

“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea that to…

— Martin Shaw

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the…

— Lord Byron

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler