Air Quote by Lawrence Durrell

“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on…

— Garry Crystal

Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From the ice roof depending; and beneath, Grottoes and temples with…

— William Henry Burleigh

“On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white against the…

— Graham Moore

“somewhere in the Devonian rocks we should find the origin of fingers and toes.”

— Neil Shubin

“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here it was…

— George Orwell

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

— Robert Lowell

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed…

— Michael Portillo

If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians…

— Robinson Jeffers

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

— Shana Alexander

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

— Louis Leakey

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real…

— Natalie Dormer