English Countryside Quotes

• 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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• 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, Countryside

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

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• The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Emotional, Atmosphere

  "The detective's great tapestry" by John Cunningham, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Country, Tree

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• 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

  Thinking, Community, Black

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• 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

  Beautiful, Fishing, Clay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.

  Bill Burr

  Graves, Countryside

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

  Dodie Smith

  Father, Doe, Littles

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House

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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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• In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.

  Marco Pierre White

  Holiday, Awards, Gathering

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• 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

  Summer, Growing Up, Spring

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”, Isis Large Print Books

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• 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

  Music, Artist, Agriculture

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• An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Space, Looks

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