Quote by Paul Theroux

“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but…

— Peter Hessler

“I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine - Listen close - the sound…

— Gary Snyder

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

“Beneath the chinaberry tree at the school, on the wide rolling clay earth scattered with fallen berries, he had thought himself homesick. But now…

— Donald Windham

“London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.”

— David Mitchell

“An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.”

— Iain Pears

“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.”

— Ali Shaw

“How vast is my London! How strange my native place!”

— Emma Richler

“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who…

— Brenda Sutton Rose