All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.