Hedgerows Quotes

• 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

  Iowa, Space, Looks

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• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  Patrick MacGill

  Home, Sight, Bird

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.36, Read Books Ltd

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• El pueblo de las hadas escucha a la semilla brotar en primavera, y como música para su danza oye a los setos despertar del trance, savia que tiembla en brotes enviando pequeños torrentes rítmicos de sonido de hadas a oídos de hadas. Así, toda la belleza que aparece nace como sonido para un sentido más fino y una inteligencia más ligera.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Listening, Sound

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

  T. S. Eliot

  Attachment, Self, Three

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Winter, Mushrooms, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.214, Macmillan

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• There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

  Emily Post

  Weed, Life Is Too Short, Eye

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Men, Shrubs

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• El padre de mamá estuvo en el ejército, asaltó la playa de Normandía, luchó en los setos franceses, en la batalla de las Ardenas, en la batalla de las Ardenas y liberó campos de concentración al final de la guerra.

  Mark Hoppus

  Mom, Beach, Dad

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• A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

  P. D. James

  Men, Cities, Violence

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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Children, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

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• Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

  Ouida

  Poison, Beard, Dishonor

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.444

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• Quizá la libertad realmente no sea nada que perder. La tuviste una vez en la infancia, cuando no pasaba nada por subirse a un árbol, pintar un cuadro loco y despeinarse en la bici, hacerse daño. El espíritu de riesgo se despide poco a poco. Sigue los gritos salvajes de alegría y dolor a través del viento, a través del seto, cada vez más tenue. ¿Qué era ese sonido? ¿Un perro ladrando a lo lejos? Era nuestra vida que nos llamaba, la que era vigorosa e indefensa y curiosa.

  Peter Heller

  Perro, Herir, Dolor

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• Puso el pie en un pedal, avanzó unos metros y pasó la otra pierna por encima del sillín. Se elevó hacia la izquierda en la vertiginosa ladera de la carretera y aceleró, sin tocar los frenos... Los setos y el cielo se desdibujaron; se imaginó en un velódromo mientras el viento le despeinaba...

  J. K. Rowling

  Healing, Hair, Wind

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• Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

  Nevada Barr

  Inspirational, Cat, Lap

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