Quotes About English Landscape

#1. I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

Penelope Lively

#2. Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

Alan Titchmarsh

#3. At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

Cherie Lunghi

#4. I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

Robert Wilson

#5. Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.

Karen Blixen

#6. There are voices and they must be heard.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. Man plans, God laughs.

Erik Larson

#8. I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

Frankie Valli

#9. The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.

Thomas Banyacya

#10. did you just say 'gee whiz' to me? what am I, nine? I am a woman-

Christopher Moore

#11. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#12. Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Donald Hall

#13. It's hard to go from thinking that a person is somebody you really want to know to finding out that not only do you not want to know them at all, but they're capable of violence.

Yvonne Prinz

#14. Is then no nook of English ground secure
From rash assault?

William Wordsworth

#15. The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.

Robert Macfarlane

#16. In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

Bankei Yotaku

#17. All is fair in love and sadism.

Tiffany Reisz

#18. The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Billy Joel

#19. For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Mahatma Gandhi