Countryside Quotes

• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Answers, Strange Phenomena

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• 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

  Peace, Perfect, Worry

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• 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

  Effort, Comfort, Population

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• 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

  Green, Sun, Flowering

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• 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

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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• 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

  Long, Green, Able

  "Year of the Dragon". Los Angeles Times, May 2012.

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• 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

  Smile, Beautiful, Doe

  "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (1892)

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• Two things revolutionised life: Moving to the countryside, and falling in love

  Nick Love

  Falling In Love, Moving, Fall

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• Hope is like a path in the countryside.

  Lu Xun

  Path

  "A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity". Book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• 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

  Sports, Athlete, Opportunity

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• What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.207, OUP Oxford

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• Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Blessed, Years, Sight

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• 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

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Sharon Kay Penman (2002). “Time and Chance”, p.291, Penguin

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• What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

  Dodie Smith

  Doe, Visuals, English Countryside

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.241, Random House

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• When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

  Ross Kemp

  Weather, British, Better Place

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• I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

  Miranda Kerr

  Ocean, Mountain, Body

  "Miranda Kerr: Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive". www.esquire.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Lakes, Perfect

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Creativity, Eye, Air

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• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  E. M. Forster

  Growth, Literature, Destruction

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• How do you like to go up in a swing,
  Up in the air so blue?
  Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
  Ever a child can do!
  Up in the air and over the wall,
  Till I can see so wide,
  River and trees and cattle and all
  Over the countryside.
  Till I look down on the garden green,
  Down on the roof so brown-
  Up in the air I go flying again,
  Up in the air and down!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Children, Wall

  A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

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• It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Laughter, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Rivers, Landscape, Green

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• 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

  Beautiful, Home, Garden

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• 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

  Future, Mean, Rights

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• 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

  People, Challenges, Threatening

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