bury oneself in

And yet it was good and stimulating to hear all that and to have to bury oneself in it for reality's sake.

"To bury oneself in one's art, and spurn all else, is the only way to evade unhappiness," he writes to his friend.

It is not necessary to bury oneself in the country, nor, with the new facilities of transportation, need we, unless we wish to, pay the extravagant rents and enormous cost of living in the city.

To retreat from town, from the struggle, from the bustle of life, to retreat and bury oneself in one's farm—it's not life, it's egoism, laziness, it's monasticism of a sort, but monasticism without good works.