47 quotes found
“Organic life cannot be far from water.”
“It was a country life, a precious existence.”
“Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.”
“Study the nature around you, but also within you.”
“Cherish the moment and the time in which you live.”
“It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.”
“The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.”
“Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.”
“People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.”
“It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.”
“I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m emerging from dark times – can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and...”
“I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.”
“Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But ther...”
“In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.”
“Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in the modern world. I beg to differ. After all, who has greater faith? He who looks to and learns from t...”
“Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.”
“Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.”
“As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.”
“Often I have found myself gazing up at clouds – yesterday’s seas and tomorrow’s streams – to think of them as floating on an ultraviolet sea, beyond which is the infinity of space that presents so ...”
“Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.”
“It’s the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what’s beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.”
“To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.”
“Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.”
“Rural and traditional escapism. That’s my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly...”
