Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

I'm more on the country side than big cities.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

I grew up as a country boy.

the simplicity & quiet ease of village life, is all humbug. The city is the only place to gain a knowledge of the world.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

I go through phases of not liking the pretention and sycophantic nature of L.A. but I can be surfing in 10 minutes and snowboarding in two hours - I love the connection with nature.

Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.

People from the country are very simple and loyal. I like that. I prefer to deal with the campesinos rather than the political people in Lima.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.