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Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.
I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.
What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living.
If I'm in the English countryside and get on my bicycle, I see what sort of strange inbred rural locals I can snap.
I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.
My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate the countryside; we appreciate nature and everything about it.
I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment.
I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
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.
I love going to England and discovering new places in the countryside. I love the English weather and the freedom that the place gives.
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.
I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
My partner, Patrick, and I live in an old house in Belgium that was built in 1840 and is out in the countryside between Antwerp and Brussels.
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'm very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these beautiful mountains.
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.
It doesn't matter if it's soggy or it's sunny, there are so many lovely roads and awesome rugged countryside in Scotland - that's what makes it.
I prefer the simple things and I love walking in the countryside, or going camping... but simplicity is hard. It's easier to over-complicate things.
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside... It's a classic little village, and it's idyllic in a lot of ways.
In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'
I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.
I usually live an extremely normal life, since I live in the countryside. Even when people call me 'famous' and such, I can't really fathom it, even now.
When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.