Childhood Quote by Edna O'Brien

“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound…

— Wendell Berry

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

— Robert Adams

We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is…

— J. D. Vance

“It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as…

— Deborah Tall

“Everybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or…

— Joan Halifax

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and…

— William Faulkner

“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and…

— John Graves

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live…

— Esther Meynell

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

— Vita Sackville-West

“It was a land of almost breathtaking beauty or of savage poverty; a land of screaming ghosts or of sun-flung possibilities; a land of…

— Alexandra Fuller

Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In…

— Lucretius