12 Famous English Countryside Quotes You’ll Love

“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective’s personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character”

Elizabeth George, American Author.

“What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?” 

Dodie Smith, English Author

“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, Author.

“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you’re normally troubled by heat and sand… then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about” 

J. R. R. Tolkien.

“What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside â€” it means I’m home”

 Natalie Dormer, English Actress.

“I live in the English countryside, so I’m surrounded by magpies”

Kenneth Branagh, Irish Actor

“Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I’m in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings” 

Lily Collins, English Actress.

“As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale”

Lily Collins, English Actress.

“The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can’t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay-pigeon shooting”

  Guy Ritchie, British Film Director.

“I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens”

Jessica Henwick,

English Actress.

“If I’m in the English countryside and get on my bicycle, I see what sort of strange inbred rural locals I can snap”

Alexander Gilkes, British Businessman.

“We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days — not like a product, which is now the mode”

Gary Wright, American Musician.

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said:  “What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?” He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was, and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty’s evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him, but I understood perfectly

 Dodie Smith, English Author.

in ‘I Capture the Castle’.