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Countryside Contemplations

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‘Why, one day in the country is worth a month in the town’, Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

A thoughtful and inspiring gift-book for those who find solace in nature. Filled wit...
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‘Why, one day in the country is worth a month in the town’, Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

A thoughtful and inspiring gift-book for those who find solace in nature. Filled with evocative and carefully selected quotations, verses and extracts on the landscape, country life, nature and folklore as prompts for quiet reflection. Quotations and verses to recall when enjoying the great outdoors and longer extracts to ponder at home. Celebrating the restorative power of the natural world, this collection includes wise words from Lord Byron, Aristotle, John Muir, Joseph Addison, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Cole, and more.

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Hardback
12.5 x 16.5cm
191 pages

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