Welcome to our collection of Countryside Quotes, where the beauty and serenity of rural life come to life through words. The countryside has always held a special place in our hearts, inspiring writers, poets, and thinkers for centuries. Its vast landscapes, rolling hills, and peaceful surroundings have provided endless inspiration for those seeking solace and a connection to nature. In this curated selection of quotes, we bring you the wisdom, nostalgia, and appreciation that individuals from all walks of life have shared about the countryside. Whether you’re looking to capture the essence of rural living, find inspiration for your next creative project, or simply revel in the simple pleasures of the countryside, you’ll find a diverse range of quotes to explore below. So, read on and discover the beauty of the countryside through the words of renowned authors, philosophers, and everyday observers.
I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know. Mark Billingham
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways. Roger Scruton
I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex. Makoto Shinkai
I’m certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. Jessica Raine
I’m in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I’ve got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I’ve got my work 40 yards from my home. I don’t mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? Jay Kay
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises. Jasmine Guinness
I love long power walks in the countryside. Alice Temperley
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel. Billy Campbell
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. Richard Rogers
I prefer the simple things and I love walking in the countryside, or going camping… but simplicity is hard. It’s easier to over-complicate things. Bill Bailey
I live in Hamburg; that’s in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. Cornelia Funke
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we’ve smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don’t think it’s our privilege to behave this way. Lewis Thomas
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do. Giles Coren
I’ve never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it’s just spectacular. And it’s true, the people are very beautiful too. Salman Rushdie
I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life – to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course. Gerard Butler
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce. Sam Heughan
I’m obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I’m really into folk music and folklore. But more so I’m into electronic music. I’m into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It’s kind of what I wanted to achieve. Ellie Goulding
When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don’t hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don’t know anything about the Irish music scene, and I’ve never felt part of it. Roisin Murphy
I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside. Marion Cotillard
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below. Robert Webb
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
Two things I’m obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you’ll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I’ve listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot. Ellie Goulding
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn’t escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic. Mariella Frostrup
I’ve always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. John Sandford
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 product, which is now the mode. Gary Wright
When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines. Sarah Sutton
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth – on the quality and the character of it – and where it ought to go. We don’t have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. James Howard Kunstler
My mom used to call us ‘free range kids,’ like free range chickens… We roamed the countryside. William Moseley
I’m glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It’s a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well. Jason Clarke
London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I’m living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London. When I go back to the countryside to visit my mother, I get out of the car, and suddenly there’s great wafts of fresh air. Honeysuckle Weeks
I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It’s a big part of my life. Astrid Berges-Frisbey
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
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn’t find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O’Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. Yayoi Kusama
At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don’t like the countryside in England. Hugh Grant
I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up. Mo Yan
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
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn’t have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. Bill Bryson
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
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it. David LaChapelle
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
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
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don’t understand. Mary Wesley
In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don’t get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side. Nick Love
We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn’t go there as often as we thought, but now we’re back, we’re going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too. Ashley Jensen
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
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows… We’re reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa – just kind of open space. Bill Bryson
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
The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head. Kate Winslet
I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry. Alexa Chung
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. Patrick White
Both me and my wife’s extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it’s a homing instinct. Robert Smith
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles. George Monbiot
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material. Rachel Cusk
I do try rallying. I do like rallying a lot. We have a rally car there in the countryside in Madrid. And everytime I’m there, I just jump in and have some fun. I really like rallying. Carlos Sainz Jr.
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. Nick Love
I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. Bella Freud
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
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. Antoine Lavoisier
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
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
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. Charles C. Mann
I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! Rupert Friend
I’ve been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I’ve come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. Arthur Smith
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
When the weather’s good, there’s no better place to be than the British countryside. Ross Kemp
Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I’m a farmer, but there’s so much experience that goes into that. Alastair Cook
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts. Kevin McCloud
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living. Li Ziqi
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
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
Japan was this wonderful unexplainable sensual explosion – everything about it I found fascinating. There’s a real dichotomy between the ‘Blade Runner’-esque Tokyo to visiting a Buddhist monastery in the countryside. Edith Bowman
Whether it has been supporting Corby’s new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area. Louise Mensch
I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked. Trudie Styler
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
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn’t have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy. Wendi Deng Murdoch
I long for the countryside. That’s where I get my calm and tranquillity – from being able to come and find a spot of green. Emilia Clarke
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg’s movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux – the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director. Denis Villeneuve
I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside. Miranda Kerr
I’m very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these beautiful mountains. Aaron Dessner
Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don’t pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back… ready to be put in the garbage. Valentino Garavani
I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people. Marco Pierre White
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you’re in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything. Wolfgang Puck
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. E. M. Forster
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. Noam Chomsky
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William. Caitlin Moran
In the countryside, you’re always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment. Ben Howard
In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.’ Bill Bryson
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house. Heinrich Boll
Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside… It’s a classic little village, and it’s idyllic in a lot of ways. William Moseley
There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea. David Hewson
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. J. R. R. Tolkien
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
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
I wish people would take more care of the countryside. Kevin Whately
I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you’re going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs. Jay Kay
Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the ‘stove’ – the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn’t let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset. Jose Andres
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. Nelson Mandela
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father’s business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. Aaron Klug
It doesn’t matter if it’s soggy or it’s sunny, there are so many lovely roads and awesome rugged countryside in Scotland – that’s what makes it. Edd China
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
