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“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”

Heart Quiet Beats England Green Psalms

Author:Arthur Quiller-Couch

“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

People Light Given Creative Growing Up Growing Doors England Green Publishers Banging Green Lights

Author:Nick Bantock

“I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.”

Stills Real Past Spirit Worship England Green Moved Ghost Hills Irony Fever New England Hay Melville Hawthorne Green Hills Hay Fever

Author:John Updike

“There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.”

Wells Sea England Green Woods Grey Desolation Wildness Marshes Norfolk

Book:Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson

Source: Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson

“You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.”

People Ifs Believe Difficult Company Boys Missing Kings England Green Obvious Staring Lions Minors Elephants Royal Purple Robes Unicorn Scarlet

Book:The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book

“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.”

Source: Here On Earth

“Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land”

“And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?”

Time Walks Feet Holy Mountain England Green Ancient Pleasant Lambs Pastures Chariots Ancient Times Lamb Of God Chariots Of Fire

Author:William Blake

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts