If I'm in the English countryside and get on my bicycle, I see what sort of strange inbred rural locals I can… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
“Horses, boots and hats don't constitute country life, humility, simplicity and compassion do.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
“Living in the countryside is the dream of every person who wants to return to his essence!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
Britain's got the most beautiful countryside on the planet, and some good opportunities for speed. — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“about 900 million people live in the countryside, where more than half the peasants survive on about US$0.73 per day. Incomes there… — Gordon G. Chang 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
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
“away.” “Yes, I am aware of that. I just moved here.” “But you don’t even like the countryside.” “Your father didn’t but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London.… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness.… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants… — Jared Diamond 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
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Essex raised its ugly head. When i was a scholarship boy at the local grammar, son of a city-hall toiler on the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,… — H. G. Wells 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
I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
