“In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity… Participation was high and organization was low. This is the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
“My senses, until now starved of any except visual stimuli, were suddenly assailed by a concentrated, if not distilled essence of the… — John Farebrother Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization.… — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
“This country life doesn’t look so bad from the window. It melts your heart. It warms your soul.lets you think about the… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We move, all of us, in sprung rhythm: for our world – whether we conceive it as broad or as cosy –… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“They call this an orphan train, children, and you are lucky to be on it. You are leaving behind an evil place,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Little girl, little boy If love has a way Fill their fields with laughter And scatter the sun on their day And… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit must… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“The peace and seclusion of country life have already been largely undermined by the radio, the car, and the telephone, and by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I jump on Lane’s back. He catches my legs around his sides, holding on tight, and I wrap my arms around his… — Sally Henson Copy Share Image
“Now, did you really mean that about not wanting to do this the rest of your life?” he asked. That familiar, playful… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Of course, no china--however intricate and inviting--was as seductive as my fiancé, my future husband, who continued to eat me alive with… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“I saw a pair of great tits some days ago. (Massingham Major, you are a dirty-minded boy, and if you snigger again,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“I think, probably, whether your're better off in the country or in the city depends, in the final analysis, on where you'd… — Louise Rich Dickinson Copy Share Image
“...when I offered to either stay and help or go bake a pie, it was the pie that was most needed. It… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
