‘I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don’t think it’s true of people who’ve grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don’t think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it’s a different kind of love.’ – Arundhati Roy
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Ruth that is exactly what I feel. I was brought up in the countryside and the love that I have developed from the things of the countryside could never have been developed in a city or a town. I love this quote
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I’m glad you like it too – it just speaks to my heart ❤
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It certainly does. I live in a town now, and dislike it. I think you luve in London too don’t you. I yearn to move back into the countryside but it isn’t possible. I an 71 now, and can’t bear the thought of being here until I die. Thankyou for the quote. It might just inspire a poem later today 😊
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Yes we live in London for now, but hopefully not forever. I’m 55 now, and certainly feel the pull of home tugging on my heart-strings in a way it never did when I was younger 🙂
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I understand that SO well ruth. I long to get back to my home village but at our age it is hard. Selling houses is not easy and ours is not worth that much. We used to live in Waltham Abvey. I don’t know if you know it. A lovely place.
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I grew up in a more urban environment, I think there are elements that are part of me, but it’s more a feeling than a relationship to a thing.
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I suppose for me it’s not only that I feel attached to the landscape, but also that the familiarities of the landscape feel attached to me, to my sense of self, as if in part I am where I grew up. Sounds weird, I know, but it’s how it feels… 🙂
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It’s not weird. I think it’s why I am drawn to rivers. I grew up in a river city, and there always seemed to be a river in view.
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🙂
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Having grown up in a small town to parents who took us on vacations geared toward nature, I much prefer being in the middle of a forest or next to a lake. Breathing in the air alone is so different!
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And I always find the sky feels bigger in the countryside, which sounds really dumb! 🙂
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Not dumb at all. Living in a city now, I don’t feel the magnitude of the sky or see the stars in a way that you can in the country. There is a difference.
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Oh, I do miss the stars, living here in London – I can still recognise some of the constellations when I do get to see them, though, which feels so reassuring 🙂
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Exactly what I feel every time I return to the rolling green farmland of southeast PA. And I love any quote by Arundhati Roy.
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It’s a nice feeling, a real sense of beginning and belonging, isn’t it? 🙂
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Very true. City life is nothing like living rural. They don’t have the same beauty that we have.
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City living brings different kinds of benefits, I think – I guess I’m just not suited to them any more 🙂
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Very true.
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It’s stunning and so peaceful, one day you will live there again 😉
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Fingers crossed…
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