We move, all of us, in sprung rhythm: for our world –…

“In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of SS Andrew…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“Country Life George”

— Roberta Edwards

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

— William Blake

“Arcady, like Death its denizen with us, is all around us, if we – stalled beasts who want to be set forth – but…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

— Simon Pegg

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are…

— Emily Bronte

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of…

— William Penn

“I jump on Lane’s back. He catches my legs around his sides, holding on tight, and I wrap my arms around his neck. Mmmmm.…

— Sally Henson

“It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they…

— Oscar Wilde

Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the…

— Michael Haneke

“Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing.”

— John Hart

“Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit must seek to…

— Halldór Laxness

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

— Barack Obama

I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in…

— Flora Thompson

“What was stolen by the city, nature restores.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson