A few of our favourite quotes by some of the Lake District’s best loved artists, poets and writers to bring you inspiration and brighten your day…….
“So wondrous wild, the whole might seem the scenery of a fairy dream” Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake
“It is a pleasure to a real lover of nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises” Dorothy Wordsworth
“The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow” Dorothy Wordsworth
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece” John Ruskin
“There is no wealth but life” John Ruskin
“The best things in life aren’t things” John Ruskin
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it” John Ruskin
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather” John Ruskin
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing” Alfred Wainwright
“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations” Beatrix Potter
“I fear I shall be obliged to leave this pudding” Beatrix Potter
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her” William Wordsworth
“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life” William Wordsworth
“How does the meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold” William Wordsworth
“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, my gentle guide, in following thee” Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake