--- title: "1 Liked Country Quotes By Kenneth Grahame" description: "1 Liked Country quotes by Kenneth Grahame. Plus more from Kenneth Grahame and more Liked Country sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/kenneth-grahame-3489_flower_it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-har_2908549.jpg" --- > [“It was a cold still afternoon with a hard steely sky overhead, when he slipped out of the warm parlour into the open air. The country lay bare and entirely leafless around him, and he thought that he had never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-hard-steely-sky-overhead-when-he/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/kenneth-grahame-3489_flower_it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-har_2908549.jpg) ## More by Kenneth Grahame > [Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/monkeys-who-very-sensibly-refrain-from-speech-lest-they-should-be-set/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/what-the-boy-chiefly-dabbled-in-was-natural-history-and-fairy-tales/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/the-dragon-is-a-more-enduring-animal-than-the-pterodactyl-i-have/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/the-past-was-like-a-bad-dream-the-future-was-all-happy-holiday-as-i/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/independence-is-all-very-well-but-we-animals-never-allow-our-friends/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/supper-was-finished-at-last-and-each-animal-felt-that-his-skin-was/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/the-river-corrected-the-rat-it-s-my-world-what-it-hasn-t-got-is-not/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“What is the meaning of this gross outrage?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/what-is-the-meaning-of-this-gross-outrage/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/slowly-but-with-no-doubt-or-hesitation-whatever-and-in-something-of-a/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/in-silence-they-landed-and-pushed-through-the-blossom-and-scented/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/it-s-not-the-sort-of-night-for-bed-anyhow/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/but-mole-stood-still-a-moment-held-in-thought-as-one-wakened-suddenly/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“This day was only the first of man similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/this-day-was-only-the-first-of-man-similar-ones-for-the-emancipated/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [“As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/as-he-hurried-along-eagerly-anticipating-the-moment-when-he-would-be/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) > [Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/animals-arrived-liked-the-look-of-the-place-took-up-their-quarters/) [Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liked-country/kenneth-grahame/#itemlist", "name": "1 Liked Country Quotes By Kenneth Grahame", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was a cold still afternoon with a hard steely sky overhead, when he slipped out of the warm parlour into the open air. The country lay bare and entirely leafless around him, and he thought that he had never seen so far and intimately into the insides of things as on that winter day when Nature was deep in her annual slumber and seemed to have kicked the clothes off. Copses, dells, quarries and all hidden places, which had been mysterious mines for exploration in leafy summer, now exposed themselves and their secrets pathetically, and seemed to ask him to overlook their shabby poverty for a while, til they could riot in rich masquerade as before, and trick and entice him with the old deceptions. It was pitiful in a way, and yet cheering-even exhilarating. He was glad that he liked the country undecorated, hard, and stripped of its finery. He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple. He did not want the warm clover and the play of seeding grasses; the screens of quickset, the billowy drapery of beech and elm seemed best away; and with great cheerfulness of spirit he pushed on towards the Wild Wood, which lay before him low and threatening, like a black reef in some still southern sea.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kenneth Grahame" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-hard-steely-sky-overhead-when-he/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/kenneth-grahame-3489_flower_it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-har_2908549.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/kenneth-grahame-3489_flower_it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-har_2908549.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/kenneth-grahame-3489_flower_it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-har_2908549.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was a cold still afternoon with a hard steely sky overhead, when he slipped out of the warm parlour into…” — Kenneth Grahame", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liked-country/kenneth-grahame/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liked-country/kenneth-grahame/", "name": "Liked Country Quotes by Kenneth Grahame", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liked-country/kenneth-grahame/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/kenneth-grahame-3489_flower_it-was-a-cold-still-afternoon-with-a-har_2908549.jpg" }, "description": "1 Liked Country quotes by Kenneth Grahame. 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