Yoko Taro

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

Japanese Director

Benee

I call everything Steve. Since I was little, I'd go on, like, holiday and call hermit crabs Steve. And I still do. I'll name a snail Steve. Everything is called Steve in my world. My car is also called Steve.

New Zealander Musician

Joanna Garcia

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

American Actress

Alan Watts

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

English Philosopher

Viola Davis

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

James Russell Lowell

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

American Poet

Peter Dinklage

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

American Actor

Madlib

American Musician

Hayden Christensen

Canadian Actor

Steven Wright

American Comedian

A hermit chooses to live alone, away from society, for personal reasons or lifestyle preference.

Voluntary Isolation

'Hermit' doesn't mean unfriendly; it just means preferring solitude.

Not Unfriendly

'Hermit' doesn't necessarily carry a positive or negative connotation itself.

Neutral Connotation

Religious hermits isolate themselves primarily for spiritual growth and prayer.

Spiritual Pursuit

Historically, religious hermits were often respected and sought after for wisdom.

Respected Figure

Becoming a religious hermit is a specific vocation that differs from just living in isolation.

Specific Vocation

In biology, hermit crabs are known for their unique behavior of living in scavenged shells.

Distinct Habitat

Hermit crabs differ from true crabs as they have a softer exoskeleton and lack a hard shell.

Not a True Crab

Hermit crabs are known for adapting to their environment by using different kinds of shells.

Adaptive Behavior

 Tests on hermit crabs show that they'll leave an undesirable shell if they're zapped with electricity but stay if it's a good shell. And octopi that may originally curl up an injured arm to protect it will risk using it to catch prey.

How do animals...

 The modern world seems to present us with a choice. If we're not going to fast-twitch from browser window to browser window, we have to live like a hermit, focus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.

A powerful way to...

 And the results are about the most disgusting thing you've ever seen. But it is very enlightening. With help from their smaller strawberry hermit crab cousins, they devour the carcass within a week,

Coconut Crabs Devour Pig...

 But out on the flats, the scent of dying snail wafts away on the tide. It's a scent that these hermit crabs are partial to. It's vital that the crabs have the best possible protection

Giant Horse Conch &...

 finally he had a vision and the message became clear some survey woman yeah at the looks observer and abettor a mystical battle hermit appeared to me in

Man Carves Churches into...

 it's a scent that these hermit crabs are particularly partial to it's vital that the crabs have the best possible protection from the heavy teeth of the

Hermit Crabs Steal A New...

 scent that these hermit crabs are particularly partial to it's vital that the crabs have the best possible protection from the heavy teeth of the

The Blue Planet...

Giant Horse Conch and...

 Hermit crabs protect themselves by hiding their soft bodies in the abandoned shells of other creatures.

Hermit Crabs Use Litter...

 the humble hermit crab harmless and traditionally small