Quotessence
Home / Topics / Countryside Quotes

Countryside Quotes

Browse 279 quotes about Countryside.

Related topics

PeopleCitiesWayIfsThinkingEnglish CountrysideBeautifulCountryMenWorldHomeKindTownsYearsGrewGrew UpLittlesLondonWellsDoeGovernmentHouseKnowsMindMountainWind

Countryside Quotes

“The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”

PeopleFeelsHas BeensWholeHappensWaitingCitiesWhole LifeWanderCountrysideBlurWaiting For Something
Book:And the Mountains Echoed
Create image

“We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.”

WorldWayFoundSpeakPerfectForgetCitiesTreeSkyWillingAdventureRedCloudsSpotsCountrysideKetchup
Author:Annabel Pitcher
Create image

“The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in the morning and she watched the sun set in the evening. Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before . . . but the Little House stayed just the same.”

LittlesDifferentHappinessHouseMorningSunEveningHillsSatVery HappyCountrysideSun RiseSun Set
Book:Mike Mulligan and More: A Virginia Lee Burton Treasury
Create image

“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.”

MenWorldWantChildrenMadeTwoDreamBornPoorSweetDaughterRaisedSellingMy ChildrenGrandmotherGrandchildrenDefectsMy GrandmotherCornCountrysideMy GrandchildrenTwo Daughters
Author:Hugo Chavez
Create image

“The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.”

YearsSoulEndsEarthFallHealingMagicSkyWindGloryGoldLovelyAutumnScentLanesCountrysideSpendthriftYear End
Book:I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent
Create image

“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.”

Has BeensEyeLastsFormFoundCausesWaterAnswersCreativityAirSeaCreationStrangeMountainBirdStonesInnovationPlantVariousCirclesSpotsEngagedVisibleShellsMy ThoughtsThunderCountrysideSeaweedStrange Phenomena
Author:Leonardo da Vinci
Create image

“I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of killing foxes, such as shooting, are crueller is to accuse all those people who work in the countryside of being more cruel than they need to be. In all the time that I have lived in and represented the countryside, I have seen no evidence that those people have that view.”

PeopleThinkingWayNeedsUsedViewsEvidenceMethodKillingShootingHuntingFoxesCountrysideFox Hunting
Author:Ian Cawsey
Create image

“I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.”

YearsSaidAnswersShotsTreatsShootingInjurySpokesHospitalsHuntingFoxesCountrysideVetsNorfolk
Author:Ian Cawsey
Create image

“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!”

ThinkingLooksChildrenI CanCan DoAirTreeWallSummerGardenRiversBlueGreenWideFlyingBrownSwingsRoofJuneCountrysideCattleUp In The Air
Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
Create image

“A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.”

MenNeedsDoeUniverseCoursesFoundDealsCreationDuesInstanceExplanationElephantsBe A ManMoleculesCountrysideRoamingRoaming Around
Author:Peter Atkins
Create image

“Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.”

LoveYearsWantedFallRoomsSilenceMillionsTechnologyAirThousandEnormousBeachHotelSweetnessGlimpseAutomobileJetTouristsCountrysideAdvancingMeadowsSurfCementWildnessSlumsTropical
Author:Archibald MacLeish
Create image

“Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.”

PeopleKnowsWorldHumansHeartStillsGrowsParentBornNaturalMemoriesCitiesKnow HowGrowing UpGraceWonderfulShareBabyArmsCreaturesPagesSeasonsTownsFruitCoreLovelyWeatherWitnessHuman LifeCollectionsCyclesRitualQuestioningHarvestNatural WorldComes And GoesCountrysideHealerLyricalLauraCities And Towns
Author:Eleanor Lerman
Create image

“Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside.”

UnderstandingSoundWalksCitiesCuttingJourneyInformationWalkingShapesBenefitsSightWanderDamageThriveHikingUrbanSurroundingsMaking ChangesMoldTextureTrekkingCountrysideStrollingSaunteringSight And SoundUrban Sprawl
Book:The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside
Create image

“So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose”

IfsCountryPurposePleasureVirtuePsychologyStuckFulfillmentFinding YourselfLastingGratificationCountrysideParkingEphemeralPositive PsychologyParking Lot
Book:Authentic Happiness
Create image

“Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside...." It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals.”

PeopleMenFeelsHumansIndividualEnergyCommunitySituationMusicExampleSceneDegreesHighestSickSticksIndividualityProductionsAvailableOld ManPotFeel BetterMaximumCountryside
Author:John Blacking
Create image

“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”

YearsLongArtAbleArtistGriefPaintingDisciplineSorrowProveTwentiesPursueThirtyCarrieSculptureThirty YearsCountrysideComposingDescentInvigorating
Author:Robert Bly
Create image

“Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.”

PeopleWayShouldChildrenHoursBreakFireSpeedMilesEnormousSettingSettingsNecksAviationEnginesFrighteningAlmightyFifteenPredictionsLimbsCropsPassengersCountrysideRailroadsCarriagesLivestockPredicting The Future
Author:Martin Van Buren
Create image

“My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?”

MenHeartBookSoulSongFoundPleasureBehindsCompanyHe ManSweetMy HeartLaughterGardenTablesTiredBurdenMy SoulCharmRefugeScentBleedingCountrysideBruised
Author:Wally Lamb
Create image

“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”

SelfCitiesCenturyHealthyDiseaseEuropeConstantPopulationCrowdsImmigrationUrban20th CenturyPeasantsCountrysideSustainingDwellers
Book:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Create image

“The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.”

WellsCountryWould BeCareFormCitiesPracticeCasesSpecialConditionsFineAchievementAreasDoctorsMedicineHealth CareCompellingPortraitsSplendidCountrysideGeneral PublicInformativeRural AreasPractice Of MedicineOverview
Author:Richard Selzer
Create image

“We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.”

PeopleTodayTechnologyTomorrowLaborMiseryAccomplishProductivitySoilGapsVillageUrbanBrutesCountrysideFleeingVillaAdvanced TechnologySquattersFavelas
Author:Alvin Toffler
Create image

“You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we live...And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we live - our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it to them either as we found it or better than we found it.”

MenWantChildrenDoneFoundResponsibilityMoralShareLandPlanetsProtectMountainConcernRiversOur ChildrenConservativeCommittedForestsWorriedCountrysideMeadowsMoral ResponsibilityRivers And MountainsPatrimony
Author:Ronald Reagan
Create image