Remote Places Quotes:

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

- Tryon Edwards

source: Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books

topic: Happiness, Doors, Heaven, Remote Places, Gathering Places

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Humor, Intelligent, Four, Remote Places

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn’t an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.68, Penguin

topic: Wall, Distance, Rocks, Humming, Remote Places

The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.

- James Holman

source: James Holman (2009). “A Voyage Round the World: Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832”, p.6, The Floating Press

topic: Country, Believe, Passion, Remote Places, Arabian

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Christian, Religion, Atheism, Always Alone, Remote Places

It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: People, World, Fantastic, Remote Places

We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.

- Ronda Rousey

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: New York, Ocean, Eye, Remote Places, Places In The World

People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.

- M. E. W. Sherwood

topic: Memories, People, Giving, Palimpsest, Unemotional

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Easter, Past, Korea, Easter Island, Remote Places

Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.

- Phil Cousineau

topic: Mean, Journey, Finding Yourself, Sacred Places, Pilgrimage

I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Thinking, Light, Feet, Remote Places

Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

- Ruskin Bond

topic: Character, Unique, Animal, Remote Places

I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic.

- Scarlett Johansson

source: Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

topic: New York, Order, Cities, Very Inspiring, Remote Places

I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.

- DeLisha Milton-Jones

source: "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Basketball, Spiritual, Jesus, Playing Basketball, Remote Places

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

- Vallabhbhai Patel

topic: Independent, Leader, India, Remote Places

I wanted to do with Antarctica was say let's hit the reset button on that and see what happens to your creative process. Let's go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it.

- DJ Spooky

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Reset Button, Creative, Buttons, Remote Places, Antarctica