Ancient Quote by Penelope Lively

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape…

— Penelope Lively

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments…

— Mark Mason

The Great British Dig' is a fantastic format which combines finding out about the history of where you live and the surprising things that…

— Hugh Dennis

Landscape is history made visible.

— J. B. Jackson

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

— Monty Don

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering…

— Andrea Barrett

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and…

— Giles Foden

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I'm interested in how people interact with the landscape around them, and the effect that has.

— Douglas Henshall

Around 4000BC, the Mesolithic, hunter-gatherer way of life here gave way to a more settled, farming existence. Those Neolithic people built wooden trackways across…

— Alice Roberts

We lived in this area that was basically two circular roads next to each other. There were forests and pastures and stuff. I remember…

— Markus Persson

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