Countryside Quotes

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.

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.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

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

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

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.

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

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.

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.'

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.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.

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.

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.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

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

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.

Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.

We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

Hurt can make you blind to the truth

Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart.

You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters.