A Waterside Year Quotes

“Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one’s memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“It’s not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you’re schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“I’ve indulged all my escapist dreams. I’m here, away from everyone, living it up. Being a selfish and antisocial git.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“There is something eternally satisfying about lying motionless for hours on end, watching the world move around us like the shadow on a sundial.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“There’s merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Sounds simple, doesn’t it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it’s not as simple as it seems.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Nature haters? We know them too well: lifeless creatures created without emotion or aware of anything that is peripheral to their purpose.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“No more selfishness. Just a balanced, contented, and richly meaningful life.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“There’s never been a map. Only a compass whose dial always knows where it’s pointing.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“If you have burning desire to be free (as I have) you must first find this freedom within you. And to be free in this manner, you have to be comfortable with who and what you are.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“All I really want is for our world to become increasingly more beautiful.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“There’s no such thing as ‘not enough time’ out here in the woods. I don’t even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than ‘morning, afternoon, evening and night’.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Stop and unplug,” say I; “look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world.” Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“I am not at work, or at the supermarket, or waiting for a bus (metaphorically or otherwise). I am free.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“I’m beginning to realise that I’m either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I’m probably both.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Life, as I see it, wraps around us, even when we think we are firmly embracing it.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“It’s better to run towards something good, than away from something bad.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“It’s the special things close to home, and the breadth of life, that makes our time on this earth so valuable.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2