Quotes about Surroundings

when people cease to be surrounded by beauty, they cease to hope.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

Right now, God is working all around you.

I often marveled that the interior peace of the woman was reflected so faithfully in her surroundings. Even the selection and arrangements of her possessions gave an aura of uncluttered calm. In addition, there was a directness in her approach to all of life--including housekeeping--that never failed to fascinate me. Miss Alice was a person to whom color, symmetry of line and contrast of texture were important.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.