Countryside Quotes

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

— Kevin Whately

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

— Lu Xun

I grew up in the countryside.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.”

— Viktor Tatarczuk

“Hurt can make you blind to the truth”

— Abby Clements

I always go for walks in the countryside.

— Matt Bellamy

I grew up in the countryside as a normal kid.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

The true India resides in its villages

— Charan Singh

“31. It stalks the countryside with ears that cannot hear.”

— Sef Daystrom

Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

— Nick Love

“It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight”

— Abby Clements

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

— E. M. Forster

I love the humour of the British and I love the countryside.

— Ainsley Harriott

“Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault?”

— William Wordsworth

In the countryside, you're always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment.

— Ben Howard

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

— Russell Kirk

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in…

— Robert Smith

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen…

— Roger Bannister

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was…

— Nelson Mandela

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

— Hugo Chavez

The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a…

— Huey Newton

I bridled strongly when Labour introduced their Right to Roam, fearing that it would be misused by the hard Left to stir…

— Nicholas Soames

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

— Laurie R. King

New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.

— George Monbiot

I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I…

— Ibn Warraq

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

— C. S. Lewis

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian…

— Steve Jobs

The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to…

— Pope Francis

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or…

— Jim Hightower

Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in…

— James Lee Burke

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how…

— Katherine Mansfield

With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“Nothing—and I mean really, absolutely nothing—is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowhere in the world is there…

— Bill Bryson

“Or awa’ upon Islay, in January, the wind was honed to a cutting edge across the queer flatness of Loch Gorm and…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live…

— Mira Calix

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;…

— Anonymous

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

— C. S. Lewis

“The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin…

— James Carlos Blake

“Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country…

— Kate Atkinson

“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