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Quotes About Countryside

I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
~ Sam Heughan
I love going to England and discovering new places in the countryside. I love the English weather and the freedom that the place gives.
~ Sourav Ganguly
Research the venue and location before outfit shopping, as it helps set the mood and style focus: a traditional wedding in the countryside offers a different set of sartorial rules to a tropical, beach vibe, for instance.
~ Jenny Packham
I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on.
~ Kim Dickens
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
When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.
~ Sarah Sutton
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
Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.
~ Donald Trump
At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.
~ Hugh Grant
I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.
~ Jessica Raine
I grew up in the countryside as a normal kid.
~ Sean Hepburn Ferrer
If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the middle of the countryside. Don't do it where people are born on bikes basically.
~ Alison Sudol
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset on a fine summer's day.
~ Roald Dahl
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
~ Khaled Hosseini
En fin, gylden metallrand stiger i øst hvor solen står opp. Byen begynner å våkne, det lyder allerede en og annen fjern rumling av kjerrer som søker inn i gatene fra landet, store, tunge bondekjerrer, fulle av torvvarer, av høy og slakt og favnved.
~ Knut Hamsun
The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.
~ yates brock
If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.
~ zedong mao ii
From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with a running start, spread one's arms and fly.
~ Jenna Blum
It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.
~ Émile Zola
for all around on the bridges and embankment Paris roared while they, on the water's edge, tasted all the joy of being alone and ignored by the rest of the world. From that moment the wharf was their little strip of countryside (93)
~ Émile Zola
Il n'y a pas, dans la campagne de Plassans, un endroit plus ému, plus vibrant de tiédeur, de solitude et d'amour. C'est là où il est exquis d'aimer.
~ Émile Zola
I tried to remember what it was the old ones used to sprinkle on us children at Halloween in the part of the country where Tim and I had grown up.
~ Emma Donoghue
The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.
~ Enid Blyton
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~ Enid Blyton