Quote by Jean GIONO

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above…

— Jean Giono

Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends -…

— Jean Giono

For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many…

— Jean Giono

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

— Jean Giono

When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to…

— Jean Giono

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to…

— Jean Giono

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

— Jean Giono

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

— Jean Giono

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

— Jean Giono

From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We…

— Jean Giono

All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins;…

— Jean Giono

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono