Climate change Quote by Helen Macdonald

“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had always read…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a…

— Michael Moorcock

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.”

— David Mitchell

“The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism,…

— Chris Elliott

“It’s funny, isn’t it?” you started quietly. “How you look up there and find a city, and I look at London and see a…

— Lucy Christopher

“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little…

— L.M. Montgomery

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great…

— Grace Paley

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

— Robert Aickman

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.”

— Hilary Mantel

“The notion of a country cottage settled in her thoughts as a watercolor, red bricks, climbing roses, the house the most intelligent of the…

— Robin Black

“There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom…

— A. Lee Martinez