Olivia Thirlby Quotes

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

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

I like rural areas.

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.

There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

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 love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.

I grew up in the countryside.

It's so busy in London, and I'm used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.

It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

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

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

Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.

I actually moved to upstate New York to the country.

My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.

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!

At 18, I took a Greyhound bus to New York City, and then I was in city after city, so I was just dying to get to the country. Everywhere I'd go, I'd just shoot out to a national park somewhere and reconnect.

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