Top 100 Quotes About The Countryside

#1. Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

John Marsden

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#2. I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

Candace Bushnell

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#3. If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment.

Honeysuckle Weeks

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#4. Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

Laurie R. King

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#5. Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Paulo Coelho

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#6. As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Michael Leunig

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#7. I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

Gary Hume

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#8. I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.

Jay Parini

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#9. Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#10. This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people.

Alan Furst

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#11. I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

Marion Cotillard

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#12. May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Virgil

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#13. Our stomachs live in towns, said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#14. I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like him to design me a house. I'd love to be in the countryside when I'm older.

Harry Treadaway

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#15. Pastor Russell lived in nearby Pittsburgh and said that there was no hell. This was terrible for we all knew that everyone but the Baptists were going there, so to believe there was no hell upset all the countryside theology.

Ammon Hennacy

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#16. Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Khaled Hosseini

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#17. I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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#18. I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.

Mark Billingham

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#19. Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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#20. What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

James Nesbitt

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#21. I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

Jessica Raine

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#22. This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

Salman Rushdie

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#23. It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.

Emile Zola

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#24. What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

Natalie Dormer

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#25. Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

Michelle Franklin

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#26. I had a dream about you last night.
We moved into a cabin in the countryside.
I couldn't handle the spiders.
You couldn't handle my drama.
I moved back to the city.

Michael Summers

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#27. Have you forgotten to have a beautiful breakfast in a countryside village? Then, you have forgotten the life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#28. There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Jenny Nimmo

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#29. The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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#30. My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens ... We roamed the countryside.

William Moseley

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#31. Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

Khaled Hosseini

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#32. pastors throughout the countryside around Rome had reminded their parishioners that Jesus was a Jew in order to coax them into opening their doors. Catholic guilt was a powerful tool,

Amy Harmon

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#33. The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

Simon Jenkins

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#34. The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.

Kate Winslet

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#35. Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

Srikumar Rao

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#36. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

John Steinbeck

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#37. To rely on the peasants, build rural base areas and use the countryside to encircle and finally capture the cities - such was the way to victory in the Chinese revolution.

Lin Biao

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#38. I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#39. Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Laurie Lee

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#40. 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.

Virginia Lee Burton

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#41. I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

Anton Corbijn

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#42. He figured somewhere in these territories there was an enormous madhouse whose keeper had thrown up his hands in disgusted defeat and flung wide the portals so these twisted folk could descend like locusts on the countryside.

William Gay

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#43. At the North Carolina border, the dull landscape ended abruptly, as if by decree. Suddenly the countryside rose and fell in majestic undulations, full of creeping thickets of laurel, rhododendron and palmetto.

Bill Bryson

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#44. I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

Kenneth Branagh

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#45. Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides ... , " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.

Gail Carriger

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#46. Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

Nick Love

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#47. The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.

Huey Newton

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#48. Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

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#49. I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

Eoin Colfer

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#50. 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

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#51. The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#52. While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.'
In short, we've voted you out of the family,' Daffy said. 'It was unanimous.

Alan Bradley

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#53. I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

James Nesbitt

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#54. I see women and children starving to death, homes destroyed and buried in rubble, the countryside a burnt landscape, its only fruit the rotting flesh of casualties. I see dead dead dead red and burgundy and maroon and the richest shade of your mother's favorite lipstick all smeared into the earth.

Tahereh Mafi

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#55. Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

Jessica Mitford

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#56. [After the Captain of the guards went into the wagon, where Laurent dressed as Jokaste was wearing a short blue dress]
'The stories of Lady Jokaste's beauty are not exaggerated,' said the Captain, man-to-man, as they wound their way across the countryside.

C.S. Pacat

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#57. A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.

Walter Benjamin

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#58. I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

Cate Blanchett

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#59. 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.

Jared Diamond

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#60. I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.

Alice Temperley

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#61. Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

Neal A. Maxwell

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#62. I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.

Lily Collins

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#63. The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.

John Ray

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#64. Yet skirts are getting shorter, and more women can be seen in Pyongyang now with high heels. The change must be shocking to people in the more conservative countryside, where high heels continue to be associated with prostitution.

Felix Abt

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#65. Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.

Anand Gopal

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#66. The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

Gwendoline Christie

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#67. I love long power walks in the countryside.

Alice Temperley

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#68. I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here.

Mitch Hedberg

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#69. After a while he pulled his hat down over his eyes and stood and placed his hands outstretched on the roof of the cab and rode in that manner. As if he were some personage bearing news for the countryside. As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains ...

Cormac McCarthy

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#70. People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

Khaled Hosseini

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#71. 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.

Hugo Chavez

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#72. I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon.

Emily Bronte

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#73. When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

Ross Kemp

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#74. Trout asked him what it had felt like to work for an industry whose business was to destroy the countryside, and the old man said he was usually too tired to care.

Anonymous

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#75. Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country ... They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

R. W. Apple

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#76. I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

Kiri Te Kanawa

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#77. The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

E. M. Forster

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#78. Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

Kinky Friedman

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#79. She could drive down Hadley Road until she reached the right spot, then walk in. Would have to drive by the reservoir. She didn't drive that road anymore. But even if she could, she wasn't going to chase some imaginary dead man, or almost dead man, around the countryside.

Dana Marton

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#80. People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.

Ken Kelly

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#81. The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure.

Fennel Hudson

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#82. I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot ... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

Peter Temple

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#83. I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Donald Hall

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#84. I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

Nobu Matsuhisa

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#85. I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

Jim Crace

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#86. Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#87. What is it about the English countryside
why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

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#88. In the countryside where the communal pattern was least disturbed, the new religion found the ground less favorable. The villagers (pagani) and the heath-dwellers (heathen) clung longest to the ancient cults.

Eric Hoffer

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#89. I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

Juno Temple

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#90. The last two days I've been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. It's late and dark, but I'm so close now. My uncle died five kilometers from here.

Tucker Elliot

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#91. Can eating heal you? With every bite of food steeped in the herbs and oils of Provence he seemed to absorb a little more of the land that lay ahead; it was as if he were eating the surrounding countryside. Already he could taste the wild banks of the Loire, covered in forests and vineyards.

Nina George

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#92. I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.

Tawni O'Dell

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#93. We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.

Fennel Hudson

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#94. The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward sign of urban pollution.

John Mortimer

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#95. I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Although there was considerable turbulence, even in the 1950s, it did not throw a shadow on my consciousness.

Romesh Gunesekera

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#96. My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

Gong Li

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#97. With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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#98. The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

Janne Teller

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#99. [Olga's dreams of happiness:] Get married, always live in the countryside winter and summer, see only good people, no one official.

Helen Azar

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#100. 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.

Monica Baldwin

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