Keep reading for striking photos that show what life is like for Denton, Nagasaki, and more modern-day hermits around the globe. Denton, who lives in a modest house in a village in Lincolnshire ...

The writer Sara Maitland has lived alone in rural Scotland for 20 years, often going days without communicating with the wider world. But far from being lonely, Sara revels in her reclusive ...

Meditation is central in both Indian and Japanese hermit traditions, serving as a means to transcend ordinary consciousness ...