Awful Quote by Bill Bryson

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more…

— Alan Titchmarsh

There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.

— Paloma Faith

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

— Simon Jenkins

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed…

— Bill Bryson

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

— Anonymous

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

— Bill Bryson

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

— Bill Bryson

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

— Dodie Smith

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

— Hanif Kureishi

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

— Martin Parr

I remember thinking this is everything that England means to me. The huge, flat landscapes with deep reds and greens. Daunting and terrifying and…

— Josh O'Connor

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

— E. M. Forster