What better way to end the weekend and greet the working week but with a reminder of all that is country…
“My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment…. There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.” ~ Bill Vaughan
“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.” ~ Charles Dickens
“I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.” ~ Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes
“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.” ~ Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945
“God made the country, and man made the town.” ~ William Cowper, The Task
“As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.” ~ John Adams
“There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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My favourite is in my current book and it came from my host (at the time I was camped in the caravan in a paddock on their Rockhampton cattle property.) She said this to me: ‘The best time of day is when the world—at least my little parcel of it—is waking up. I call it the pause before the business of the day.’
We like that one Jenn!