Rural Preservation Quotes

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

I think protecting rural England is more important than any work I do as an actress.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

It’s only the urban middle class who is interested in the preservation of the countryside because they don’t have to live in it.