“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
“I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. — William Cowper 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
“There was so much time that marvelous summer. Day after day, mist rose from the meadow as the sky lightened and hedges,… — J.L. Carr 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
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
“Not by human dwellings--not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are… — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
“Nan would come to my new house, too. Getting her there would be like breaking in a wild horse, but once she’d… — Anni Taylor Copy Share Image
“How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope… — Sarah Reijonen Copy Share Image
“Crossing my arms over my chest, I said, a little too heartily, “So this is the library.” There certainly couldn’t be any… — Lauren Willig 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
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“My time living in Hausach was idyllic, actually." Thoughtfulness swept over her, and her smile became truer. "Idyllic and quaint. Certainly not… — Sara Raasch Copy Share Image
“For the author as for God, standing outwith his creation, all times are one; all times are now. In mine own country,… — G.M.W. Wemyss 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
“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
