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Quotes About Hedgerows

The softening strands of light dulled the ragged blossoms of the hedgerows into a smear of sameness.
~ David Park
Out in the country, autumn was busy daubing the woods in orange and yellow. Rooks and gulls argued over newly ploughed fields. Behind veils of little cobwebs, the hedgerows blushed with berries.
~ Jilly Cooper
Cream and amber butterflies flew intermittently from behind the hedgerows and strange, exotic smells hit their noses.
~ Michelle Magorian
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
There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There were traces of history everywhere—in street names, on inn signs, in old tracks and ancient hedgerows, buried walls and tumbled gravestones. Scratch the surface and it was there.
~ Nicola Cornick
being a crone did not stop her enjoying the sight and smell of may in the hedgerows, though the sight was a little blurred.
~ Diana Wynne Jones