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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. John James Audubon
Strawberry fields forever. John Lennon & Paul McCartney, song 1967
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. John Archibald Wheeler
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. Hank Aaron
That field belongs to us and that’s that. The field belongs to us! ... Ours! Ours! Ours! Chekhov: Comedy Shorts: The Proposal starring Sheridan Smith & Mathew Horne, Sky Arts 2010
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley,
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold.
So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley,
In his arms she fell as her hair came down among the fields of gold.
Will you stay with me, will you be my love among the fields of barley?
We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we lie in fields of gold.
See the west wind move like a lover so upon the fields of barley.
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth among the fields of gold.
I never made promises lightly and there have been some that I’ve broken.
But I swear in the days still left we’ll walk in fields of gold,
We’ll walk in fields of gold.
Many years have passed since those summer days among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down among the fields of gold.
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley.
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky when we walked in fields of gold,
When we walked in fields of gold, when we walked in fields of gold. Sting, Fields of Gold
Stonehenge: It’s 4:30 in the morning. And I’m standing in this field with 20,000 hippies, and they’re all waiting for the sun to come up. Waldemar Januszczak: The Sculpture Diaries III: Landscape Art, Channel 4 2008
A magnificent jobshare between Nature and Us. ibid.
Back in the 60s a new art movement appeared in American art called Land Art. ibid.
Thousands of years ago Britain was covered in forest. Deep dark primordial woodland that had grown undisturbed for thousands of years. These are the landscapes in which our predecessors made their first homes. But over the centuries we hacked our way out of the forests and built fields and pathways across the land. And we made other marks in the landscape. We made things of beauty, and in doing so turned nature into culture. James Fox, Forest, Field & Sky, BBC 2016
A marvellous kind of modern art that echoes our earliest creative impulses. ibid.
I’m going to discover art that is made from nature itself. ibid.
David Nash: Ash Dome: 22 ash trees mark out a perfect circle 30 feet wide. ibid.
More than anything else, it is the field that has shaped our landscape. ibid.
Andy Goldsworth is best known for the ephemeral works he makes in the landscape. ibid.
From 1996, over a period of 7 years, he transformed 46 disused sheep folds across Cumbria into a series of beautiful outdoor sculptures. ibid.