Surroundings Quotes - Page 6

• Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a lack of clear-sightedness. When you are attentive to a tree or flower, the perception, shape, name and concept are not the only things present. There is also the All-presence that you share with them and that you are both part of. The very name and form spring forth from this eternal background, the All-presence. This is instantaneous awareness that cannot be reached by thought.

  Jean Klein

  Spring, Flower, Names

  Jean Klein (1981). “Neither This nor That I Am”

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• I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

  Werner Herzog

  Exotic, Used, Form

  "Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo". Book by Werner Herzog, 2009.

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• The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

  E. O. Wilson

  Earth, History Of Life, Interaction

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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• The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Brain, Mets

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• You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Suffering, Cheerful

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Romance, Earth, Born

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Attitude, Political, Silent

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Real, Discovery, Mind

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “How to Improve Your Mind”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

  Yaya Toure

  Children, Animal, Air

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• As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

  Lee Radziwill

  Mother, Children, Opposites

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• we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.

  Jan Clausen

  Taken, Long, Poetry

  Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

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• Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Fit, Old Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

  Ellie Goulding

  Memories, Nice, Australia

  "Interview: Ellie Goulding on her upcoming 2014 New Zealand 'Halcyon Days' Arena tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

  Susan Minot

  Looks, Littles, Film

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• If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

  Hildegard Knef

  Land, Musical, Rehearsal

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• I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Change, Sorrow, Finals

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.

  Rolf Potts

  Spiritual, Exercise, Interesting

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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• Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Reality, Alive

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Country, Integrity, Paris

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• Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Response

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• You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

  Juliette Binoche

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Juliette Binoche in Ann Arbor starring in 'Antigone'". Interview with John Monaghan, www.usatoday.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

  Graham Greene

  Prayer, Men, Class

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

  Marilyn Horne

  Home, People, Singing

  Marilyn Horne, Jane Scovell (1983). “Marilyn Horne, my life”, Scribner

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