Daniel J. Rice Quotes
I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.
The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.
The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.
It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.
What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.
I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.
There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.
The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.
The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.
The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.
...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.
If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.
Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?