Country Property

 

Frogs croak in the night. It is a sound we learn to live without in the city, but it can instantly summon a flood of memories of a country childhood (The National Geographic Society - founded 1888)

 

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. (William Hazlitt 1778 - 1830 - British essayist)

 

In the country you need to notice things (John Greaves, 1920 - American writer)

 

I Like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. (Willa Cather 1873 - 1947 - American writer)

 

It takes courage to just up and say you don't like the country. Everybody likes the country. (Lillian Hellman, 1906 - American writer)

 

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit (Cicero 106 B.C. - 43 B.C. Roman statesman, writer)

 

Today one small well-kept farm, even if it is only a couple of acres, is worth a thousand cars spilling off the General Motors assembly line. (Richard W. Langer, 1935 - American writer)

 

There is something frank and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back. (Willa Cather 1873 - 1947 - American writer)

 

I hate the country's dirt and bad manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit. (William Habington 1605 - 1664 - British poet)

 

Perhaps not since the fall of Babylon have so many city dwellers wanted to return to the country without ever having been there in the first place. (Richard Langer,

1935 - American writer)

 

One of the pleasant things about living in the country is that there aren't any holidays. One day is like the next and if you want a day off, you can take it when you like. It doesn't have to be on the same day ninety million other people are having a holiday. ( Louis Bromfield 1896 - 1956 - American writer)

 

Earth here is so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.   ( Douglas Jerrold, 1803 - 1857 - English playwright, author)

 

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live. (Vita Sackville-West, 1892 - 1962 - English writer)

 

One day in the country is worth a month in the town. Christina Geogina Rosetti, 1830 - 1894 - English poet)

 

For a man's need of the land is not only for food and shelter but equally for occasional solitude. (Rachel Peden, 1937 - American author)

 

God made the country, and man made the town, -  (English poet, William Cowper, in THE TASK - 1785--'The Sofa' )

 

Until I moved to the mountains, the coming of spring had been a gradual and painless thing, like developing a bust. (Betty MacDonald, 1908 - 1958 - American Author)

 

In the country, you will live for the pleasure of living for the first time ever. (John Veschini - 1945 - 'still 'going' - Principal - Rocky Valley Country Properties)

 

Country Life could be likened to a good wine. It has the maturity of the mountains and the wind sculptured cliffs on the sea shore, the woody scent of the trees and the 'fynbos' and the smoothness of the undulating fields. It must of necessity, be slowly and delicately savored and appreciated. (John Veschini - 1945 - 'still going' - Principal - Rocky Valley Country Properties)

 

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (Elizabeth Gilbert - from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway.)