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My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

Travel is a lot like love.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.