British Quote by Simon Jenkins Download Open image “The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it” — Simon Jenkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare British Care Countryside Environment Interest Natural environment Nature People Threatened
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows...… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Nothing—and I mean really, absolutely nothing—is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowhere in the world is there a landscape… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England. — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
“Nothing – and I mean, really, absolutely nothing – is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. Nowhere in the world… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It's in the British nature to go 'Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.' — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment. — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“On his death even The Times remarked that, ‘never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king’.” — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars. — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science,… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply.… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers,… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt. — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image