Quotes About Country

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.  

Vita Sackville-West

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. 

William Hazlitt

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.  

Charles Dickens

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Sydney Smith

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.  

Cyril Connolly

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

God made the country, and man made the town. 

William Cowper

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

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

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