The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment. — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
I bridled strongly when Labour introduced their Right to Roam, fearing that it would be misused by the hard Left to stir… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights… — Tony Hiss 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
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
