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

Landscape is history made visible.

— J. B. Jackson

“For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath the surface…

— Gillian Tindall

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

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

— Monty Don

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds…

— Timothy Morton

All forms of landscape are autobiographical,

— Charles Wright

“When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can…

— Ari Berk