Petworth

We should talk less and draw more. Personally I would renounce speech altogether, and like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches. 

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

(Vincent van Gogh)

Edale

I can't find anything like Derbyshire anywhere else..That little heap of crystalline hills, white over with sheep, white beneath with dog tooth spa is a treasure alike to them all...In its very minuteness it is the most educational of all the districts of beautiful landscapes known to me.

(John Ruskin)

Upon the top of that mountain begins a vast extended moor or waste, which, for fifteen or sixteen miles together due north, presents you neither hedge, house or tree, but waste and howling wilderness, over which, when strangers travel, they are obliged to take guides, or it could be next to impossible not to loose their way.

(Daniel Defoe)

Newark on Trent

'The whole essence of good drawing - and good thinking perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be'.

(Chuck Jones)

'You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh'.

(John Singer Sargent)

Allotments

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

(Unknown)

I look upon the pleasures we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

(Cicero)

Essaouira

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not".

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth".

(John Lubbock)

Essaouira

"I should like to spend the whole of my life travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home".

(William Hazlett)

"An ordinary talent will always be ordinary whether he travels or not; but man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains in the same place".

(Mozart)

Essaouira

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime".

(Mark Twain)

"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world".

(Gustave Flaubert)

Essaouira

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

(Samuel Johnson)

"To awaken quiet alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

(Freya Stark)