It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.