A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment.
The countryside is a great place for all kinds of critters to run free, and it turns out it’s a great place for artists to be free as well.
In the country, every beat of the heart is a rhythmic burst of life, a symphony of existence.
In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing.
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.