England is a land of dreams… for several centuries the English were characterised as “seers of visions”
- Peter Ackroyd
Glory be to God, 1860s by Georgiana Houghton
…in England the reverence for the past and the affinity with the natural landscape join together in a mutual embrace.
So we owe much to the ground on which we dwell. It is the landscape and the dreamscape. It encourages a sense of longing and belonging. It is Albion.
- Peter Ackroyd, Albion The Origins of the English Imagination