Countryside Quotes

159 quotes by 134 authors

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it.… — Roger Bannister
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
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're… — Bill Bryson
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that… — Bill Bryson
In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of… — Bill Bryson
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window.… — Billy Campbell
I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside,… — Hugo Chavez
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my… — Amedeo Modigliani
The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and… — Monica Baldwin
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the… — Leonardo da Vinci
I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of… — Ian Cawsey
I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to… — Ian Cawsey
A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules… — Peter Atkins
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it — Simon Jenkins
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green. — Emilia Clarke
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life — Debra Messing
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core… — Eleanor Lerman
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost… — Khaled Hosseini
I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got… — Jay Kay

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