Ben Fogle Quotes

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

I am not really a city person.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.

I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

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

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

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

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

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

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 grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

I kind of always get described as this, like, 'nature girl'... I've lived in New York for the last five years.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life like I'm going to run every day and live in the woods in a cabin if I can - and here I am living in San Francisco and working in a studio.

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

I grew up in the countryside.

I'm from New York City. I grew up in the city. Suburban life was very odd to me.