--- title: "2 Arcadia Quotes By G.M.W. Wemyss" description: "2 Arcadia quotes by G.M.W. Wemyss. Plus more from G.M.W. Wemyss and more Arcadia sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/g-m-w-wemyss-29518_angling_at-all-times-and-in-all-places-in-season_503406.jpg" --- > [“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/at-all-times-and-in-all-places-in-season-and-out-of-season-time-is/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/g-m-w-wemyss-29518_angling_at-all-times-and-in-all-places-in-season_503406.jpg) > [“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces, at a very narrow remove from the atavistic Wild. Arcadia is not the realm even of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/the-countryside-and-the-village-are-symbols-of-stability-and-security/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f8/g-m-w-wemyss-29518_arcadia_the-countryside-and-the-village-are-symb_1206638.jpg) ## Other authors on Arcadia - [Steven Magee 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/steven-magee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tom-stoppard-91582.jpg) Tom Stoppard 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/tom-stoppard/) - [Jenn Bennett 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/jenn-bennett/) ## More by G.M.W. Wemyss > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/in-east-sussex-let-us-say-an-old-farm-sleeps-in-sun-dapple-its-oast/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“Arcady, like Death its denizen with us, is all around us, if we – stalled beasts who want to be set forth – but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/arcady-like-death-its-denizen-with-us-is-all-around-us-if-we-stalled/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/at-all-times-and-in-all-places-in-season-and-out-of-season-time-is/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [ “Sixty-five years ago \[written 2009\], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel weather, the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/sixty-five-years-ago-written-2009-in-a-brief-lull-between-storms-in-a/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by government distortion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/the-american-share-of-the-crisis-began-with-grossly-improper/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to social class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/there-are-two-primary-strains-in-the-conservative-party-grocers-and/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/the-countryside-and-the-village-are-symbols-of-stability-and-security/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“When does the year begin? Well: that rather depends: on who you are, and where. The Church kalendar – like the academic, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/when-does-the-year-begin-well-that-rather-depends-on-who-you-are-and/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his, regard for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/note-please-that-i-condemn-only-junk-science-as-does-mr-delingpole/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“The Hitler War was my grandfather’s war; my father’s war – his and Uncle George’s – was Korea, which may have been just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/the-hitler-war-was-my-grandfather-s-war-my-father-s-war-his-and-uncle/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“Or awa’ upon Islay, in January, the wind was honed to a cutting edge across the queer flatness of Loch Gorm and the strand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/or-awa-upon-islay-in-january-the-wind-was-honed-to-a-cutting-edge/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/we-live-all-of-us-in-sprung-rhythm-even-in-cities-folk-stir-without/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem. (Looking at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/loth-as-one-is-to-agree-with-cp-snow-about-almost-anything-there-are/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [“The late American golfing coach and writer, Harvey Penick, held that any who played golf was his friend – in the politer sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/the-late-american-golfing-coach-and-writer-harvey-penick-held-that/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) > [ “Thirty years ago \[written 2009\], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/thirty-years-ago-written-2009-over-regulation-over-taxation-mis/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/g-m-w-wemyss/#itemlist", "name": "2 Arcadia Quotes By G.M.W. Wemyss", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. 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Cue Wallace Greenslade: ‘… “Round the Horne”, with Marie Antoinette as the dairymaid and Kenneth Williams as the manager of the camp-site….’) No: Arcadia is the very margin of the liminal space between the safe tilth and the threatening Wild, in which Pan lurks, shaggy and goatish, and Death proclaims, from ambush, et in Arcadia ego. Arcadia is not the Wide World nor the Riverbank, but the Wild Wood. And in that wood are worse than stoats and weasels, and the true Pan is no Francis of Assisi figure, sheltering infant otters. The Wild that borders and penetrates Arcady is red in tooth and claw.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "G.M.W. 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