Can you find me an English Country Quote?

I'm looking for a famous Country Quote preferably English and ideally
with a reference to the countryside and horses (or a horse) within it.

I have gathered some quotes for you about the countryside and horses.

"Bring me a wheel of oaken wood 
 A rein of polished leather 
 A heavy horse and a tumbling sky 
 Brewing heavy weather.

[Ian Anderson]"

The Willerup Brothers: Heavy Horses
http://willerup.com/tull/lyrics/heavy.html

"Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
 On the bare field ? I wonder why, just now,
 They seemed terrible, so wild and strange,
 Like magic power on the stony grange.

[Edwin Muir]"

The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/60/40860.html

"Very few people have settled entirely in the country but have grown
at length weary of one another . . .  the gentleman falls in love with
his dogs and horses and out of love with everything else.

Lady Montagu - letter to Edward Montagu (1712)"

Old Norris' Fox Hunting Page 
http://www.btinternet.com/~countryside.webservice/quotes.htm

"Somewhere...Somewhere in time's Own Space 
 There must be some sweet pastured place 
 Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow 
 Some Paradise where horses go, 
 For by the love that guides my pen 
 I know great horses live again. 
                     
~Stanley Harrison"

Clara's Horse Quotes
http://www.seanet.com/~cthelen/horse-quotes.htm 

"There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that
makes you feel good. Perhaps it?s the risk, the gamble. In any event
it?s a thing I need.

[William Faulkner]"

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/63/33/8833.html

"The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
 The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
 The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
 And the highwayman came riding--
          Riding--riding--
 The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

[Alfred Noyes]" 

Klio: The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
http://www.klio.net/jack/moonlight.html

"Aspects of life here ? civility, courtesy, coziness ? have always
bound Britons to their country ... They are part of the British myth,
along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the
Armada, the Battle of Britain.

[R W Apple Jr]"

Simpson?s Contemporary Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/63/12/3412.html

"The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn?. spendthrift gold
and glory of the year-end ? earth scents and the sky winds and all the
magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the
soul.

[Monica Baldwin]"

Simpson?s Contemporary Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/63/20/3420.html

"Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
 Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
 And charging along like troops in a battle,
 All through the meadows the horses and cattle.

[Robert Louis Stevenson]"

The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/78/56478.html

"Hearts with one purpose alone 
 Through summer and winter seem 
 Enchanted to a stone 
 To trouble the living stream. 
 The horse that comes from the road, 
 The rider, the birds that range 
 From cloud to tumbling cloud, 
 Minute by minute they change; 
 A shadow of cloud on the stream 
 Changes minute by minute; 
 A horse-hoof slides on the brim, 
 And a horse plashes within it.

[William Butler Yeats]"

Sligo Yeats Society 
http://www.yeats-sligo.com/html/wbyeats/poetry.html

I hope this is helpful! If anything is unclear or incomplete, or if a
link doesn't work for you, please request clarification; I'll be glad
to offer further assistance before you rate my answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

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Request for Answer Clarification by charliemygirl-ga on 15 Feb 2006 00:16 PST

Thank you but there is not got one I can use.

I need a short punchy quote ... like a line from the song Jerusalem -
although that does not mention horses.

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 15 Feb 2006 09:04 PST

Here's a short, punchy quote from a Robert Browning poem:

"Oh, to be in England
 Now that April?s there...
 While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
 In England - now!"

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/124/

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 15 Feb 2006 09:56 PST

A.E. Housman often wrote of the beautiful English countryside.

Here's a verse from Housman's "A Shropshire Lad":

"The pools and rivers wash so clean
  The trees and clouds and air,
 The like on earth has never seen,
  And oh that I were there."

http://www.bigeye.com/housman.htm

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 15 Feb 2006 10:33 PST

Here's an evocative quote about England by George Orwell:

"...solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding
roads, green fields and red pillar boxes."

http://www.bartleby.com/63/57/3557.html

Thank you for the extra effort.  I like the last two you found. 
Unfortunatly theyt were too late for what we needed but I will try and
use them in the future.

Thanks again.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24979.html

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung
himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
        Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels",1911
        Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)

Sir Walter Scott - Lochinvar
"Oh, Young Lochinvar came out of the west;
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best;
And save his good broadsword he weapons had none,
He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone.
So faithful in love, so dauntles in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar!

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone;
He swam the Esk River where ford there was none;
But ere he alighted at Netherby gate
The bride had consented, the gallant came late;
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar."

and after four more verses, the poem ends:

One touch to her hand and one word in her ear,
When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near;
So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung!
"She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur;
They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young Lochinvar.

There was mounting 'mong Graemes of the Netherby clan;
Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran;
There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee,
But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see.
So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,
Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?

Do you mean William Blake's "Jerusalem"?

I doubt if anything here will be of help:
http://www.potomachorse.com/songs.htm

Perhaps something from Banjo Patterson's "The Man from Snowy River":
http://www.kmike.com/oz/SnowyRiver.htm