Dakin Matthews Quotes

When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

I'm always happy when I'm outside working in the company of nature.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.

My California sunrise, there's a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.

I have lived in South Delhi amidst greenery.

I adore Dartmoor, where I grew up, and the Cotswolds are amazing.

Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

I'm not going to lie: I miss the grass and the trees... I miss home. On a Sunday morning, you could chill on the deck and listen to people mowing their lawns. It was very serene.

The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there.

When I got to New York, I immediately ran like a wild child to Central Park to touch the trees. I am like an animal about trees. I must be near them.