Quote by Christine Jerome

“Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.”

— Franz Kafka

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate

“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass…

— Willa Cather

“The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and…

— Shannon M Mullen

“The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“In the country neighbor­hood thereabouts, along the dusty roads, one found at intervals the prettiest little cottage homes, snug and cozy, and so cobwebbed…

— Mark Twain

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“Myself, I love the woods. I love the wild places. Ask me where I'd go for a vacation and it invariably involves the open…

— C.J. Cherryh

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

— Felicia Hemans

“So green this summer and so fresh. There are white and gold daisies among the grass in front of an old wire fence, a…

— Robert M. Pirsig