Quotes on Country

Life Quotes on Country

Life Quotes on Country

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman


Anybody can be good in the country. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~Charles Dickens

God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! ~Henri Rousseau

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
~William Cowper

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. ~William Hazlitt,Table Talk

Oh, give me the country! where grass is green;
Where the roses bloom with satiny sheen;
Where the modest violet lifts up its head,
As on it the warmth of the sun is shed:
Give me the country! where all is serene;
Where the air is pure and fragrant and clean,
And noise of the city is far away;
Where gaiety thrives through each night and day.
God made the country, so lovely and fair!,
Its wide open spaces for all to share;
Where joy and contentment each one may find
If he, earnestly, seeks for peace of mind.
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Give Me The Country!” (1940s)

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ~John Adams

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. ~Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes