“We are
surrounded by the greatest of free shows. Places. Most of them made by man,
remade by man.”
Jonathan Meades
“The
search for Utopian landscapes is probably an endless one, but I do know that by
staying in one place I will never find them.”
Werner Herzog
“With this stone and this grass, with this red
earth, this place was received and made and remade. Its generations are
distinct but all suddenly present.”
Raymond Williams
“What
I have tried to do is explore the natural history of this unofficial
countryside, what it is, and how it works, not so much as an explorer as a
curious passer-by. We begin again.”
Richard
Mabey
"Take me back to beautiful England/ And the grey,
damp filthiness of ages/ Fog rolling down behind the mountains/ And on the
graveyards, and dead sea-captains."
Polly Harvey
“Higher worlds that you uncover/
Light the path you want to roam.”
Roky Erickson/ Tommy Hall
Thank you for posting the link to (a very young) Richard Mabey's Unoffical Countryside documentary. I didn't realise that such a thing existed other than in book form. And Polly Harvey's quintessential Englishness too.
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