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I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

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.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

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.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.

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.

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.