111 books
—
8 voters
Countryside
“
Between 1992 and 2022, the public paid a staggering £9.2 billion to landowners and farmers through environmental stewardship schemes, when measured in cash terms, or £12.5 billion when adjusted for inflation.
”
― The Lie of the Land
― The Lie of the Land
“
My chief passion in those years was for the Border countryside, and my object in all my prentice writings was to reproduce its delicate charm, to catch the aroma of its gracious landscape and turbulent history and the idiom of its people. When I was absent from it, I was homesick, my memory was full of it, my happiest days were associated with it, and some effluence from its ageless hills and waters laid a spell upon me which has never been broken. I found in its people what I most admired in hu
...more
”
― Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
― Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
Welcome in this group. Vitajte v našej skupine.
29 members,
last active 11 years ago
