Nature Retreat Quotes

#1. The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Robertson Davies

#2. The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature's demands) nor from heaven (Nature's callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one's essential spirit becomes.

Darrell Calkins

#3. I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.

Klaus Schwab

#4. I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.

Robert Frost

#5. The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.

Perrey Reeves

#6. Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Romain Rolland

#7. The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Joseph McCabe

#8. It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Loren Eiseley

#9. Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.

Steven Erikson

#10. It costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in ... and if he [the sun] is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.

Darrell Calkins