Country life Quote by William Cowper

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

And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have…

— Thomas Cole

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

— John Sandford

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and…

— Susan Orlean

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page,…

— Peter Matthiessen

“My hope, for all future generations, is that they will have (in addition to sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and fertile soil) a somewhat…

— Anonymous

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 have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

— Smriti Irani

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical,

— Landon Liboiron

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

— Henri Frederic Amiel