Wander Quotes - Page 19

• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Musical, Common Experience, Fields

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• You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around.  Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately.  Take plant life away, we die.  And without the sun, all the plants die.  So we are connected.

  Jacque Fresco

  Oxygen, Plant Life, Looks

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, People, Feelings

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.59

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• So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

  Moby

  Men, Heaven, Insanity

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• My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Book, Imagination, Framework

  Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House

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• You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

  Joseph Kanon

  Party, Garden, Light

  Joseph Kanon (2012). “Istanbul Passage: A grippping historical thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know us and love us. They know when we are in pain or suffering in any way. They do not say, ‘It’s OK that you’re in pain right now because soon everything is going to be all right. You will be healed, or your husband will find a job, or your wandering child will come back.’ They feel the depth of our suffering, and we can feel of Their love and compassion in our suffering.

  Linda S. Reeves

  Jesus, Jobs, Children

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• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

  Simon Winchester

  Travel, Land, Profound

  Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin

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• Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Glory, Fades, Arrivals

  J. A. Baker (2011). “The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Smell, Water, Silence

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

  William Wordsworth

  Voice, Bird, Cuckoos

  'To the Cuckoo' (O blithe new-comer!, 1807)

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Inspiration, Frustration, Light

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with — they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.

  John Clare

  Writing, Men, Talking

  "Letters".

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• By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

  Edmond Jabes

  Light

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• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Journey, Men

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.135

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• I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

  Carol Matas

  Strong, Past, Trying

  Carol Matas (1997). “After the War”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  Colin Fletcher (2014). “The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher”, p.105, Vintage

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• Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Two, Hiking

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• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Vegas, Oasis

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• There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
  There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
  O traveller, if you are in search of that
  Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.

  Rumi

  Journey, Hiking, Soul

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Life-Force Within Your Soul”

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• In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

  Rumi

  Light, Grace, Singing

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• It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Flower, Mean, Eye

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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