Country Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater…

— E.M. Forster

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

— James Taylor

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

— Peter Ackroyd

Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like…

— Emilia Wickstead

London is a very energising place to be.

— Kevin Spacey

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult

— William Somerset Maugham

“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.”

— Tom Turner

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has…

— Hilary Farr

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to…

— Jack Kornfield