Open Spaces Quotes

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.
Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.
It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had
gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty
housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young
boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one’s eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills!”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

“She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt.”
― Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high ground, open space and paths.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot