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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. -- E. M. Forster
I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside. -- Marion Cotillard
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green. -- Emilia Clarke
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. -- Guy Ritchie
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. -- Antoine Lavoisier
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people. -- Kinky Friedman
I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs. -- Jay Kay
I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside. -- Lily Collins
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. -- Nick Love
I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside. -- Miranda Kerr
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home. -- Natalie Dormer
When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines. -- Sarah Sutton
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life -- Debra Messing
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. -- Cornelia Funke
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. -- George Bernard Shaw
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand. -- Mary Wesley
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!" -- Henri Rousseau
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside. -- Roger Bannister
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. -- Aaron Klug
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode. -- Gary Wright
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats. -- Jim Hightower
In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided. -- Martin Almada
I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? -- Jay Kay
I love long power walks in the countryside. -- Alice Temperley
The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head. -- Kate Winslet
I wish people would take more care of the countryside. -- Kevin Whately
I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. -- Kenneth Branagh
I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up. -- Mo Yan
I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside. -- Ross Kemp
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' -- Liz Williams
At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England. -- Hugh Grant
I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. -- Bella Freud
I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know. -- Mark Billingham
I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter. -- Candace Bushnell
I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. -- Jessica Raine
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside. -- Cate Blanchett
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. -- Luke Evans
If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. -- Srikumar Rao
In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.' -- Bill Bryson
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. -- Patrick White
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side. -- Nick Love
I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda. -- Maeve Binchy
Hope is like a path in the countryside... -- Lu Xun
I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave. -- Bill Burr
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. -- Russell Kirk
I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. -- Jessica Raine
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it -- Simon Jenkins
Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. -- Nathan Glazer
My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside. -- William Moseley
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. -- Charles C. Mann
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. -- Virgil
I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. -- Laurie R. King
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine. -- Khaled Hosseini
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life. -- Debra Messing
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 grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! -- Rupert Friend
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind. -- Jenny Nimmo
Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways. -- Jenny Holzer
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. -- Bill Bryson
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. -- Gwendoline Christie
The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure. -- Fennel Hudson
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. -- Rory Bremner
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. -- Lily Collins
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. -- Peter Temple
For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside. -- Jeremy Irvine
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside. -- Wendell Berry
What is it about the English countryside â?? why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so? -- Dodie Smith
I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform. -- Sarah Hall
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. -- Sharon Kay Penman
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises. -- Jasmine Guinness
Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears. -- Lu Xun
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. -- Khaled Hosseini
The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people. -- Adolf Hitler
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. -- Abbas Kiarostami
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles. -- James Nesbitt
I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure. -- Jim Crace
Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside. -- Alan Gibbons
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life. -- Adolf Hitler
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside. -- Bill McKibben
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city. -- Neil Gaiman
Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened. -- Jessica Mitford
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost. -- Bill Bryson
I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this. -- Claude Monet
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation. -- Janne Teller
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields. -- John Ray
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work. -- Amedeo Modigliani
Gods, man, don't you start now,' I said softly. 'We're going to get a terrible reputation if we just keep travelling across the countryside crying all the time. -- Sebastien de Castell
When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this... -- Alan Watts
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy. -- Wendi Deng Murdoch
Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside. -- Paulo Coelho
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. -- Arthur Smith
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 a civilisation is in its cities. -- Jonathan Meades
Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country. -- Freeman Dyson
Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside... It's a classic little village, and it's idyllic in a lot of ways. -- William Moseley
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. -- J. K. Rowling
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly. -- John Sandford
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 people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep. -- Alan Titchmarsh
We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons. -- Donella Meadows
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. -- Nelson Mandela
I had a dream about you last night.We moved into a cabin in the countryside.I couldn't handle the spiders.You couldn't handle my drama.I moved back to the city. -- Michael Summers
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, I want them to step out of the landscape. -- Peter Matthiessen
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic. -- Mariella Frostrup
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve -- Simon Barnes
Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere. -- James Lovegrove
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house. -- Heinrich Boll
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. -- Richard Rogers
What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones. -- James Nesbitt
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything. -- Wolfgang Puck
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material. -- Rachel Cusk
I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side. -- Eoin Colfer

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