Character Quote by Peter Matthiessen

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

— Kevin Whately

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

— Annie Proulx

I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of…

— Jonathan Meades

Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

— William Cowper

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

— Robert Plant

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've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

— John Sandford

I'm absolutely insane about the countryside, about walking in the hills.

— Jean Marsh

“Living in the countryside is the dream of every person who wants to return to his essence!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

— Edward Burtynsky

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

— Elliott Erwitt