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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.
I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
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.
Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways.
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.