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The sound of the little cart on the lane came first and then the sight of the pony clip-clopping towards our gate. An old woman, as old as the hills, [...]

FROM YELLOWSTONE TO OUTER RANGE TO 1923, THE WESTERN IS BACK IN ACTION--BUT LIVING THE WILD WEST LIFE MIGHT NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO MOVE THERE. I WAS STEELING myself [...]

Huckleberries Are My Weakness I AM AN URBAN HUNTER-GATHERER AND I AM SHOPPING AT CAPERS, an organic grocery store in Vancouver's West End. I step silently from ceramic tile to [...]

Byline: Photographed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch. BY CHIARA BARZINI Postcards From Italy In the northern region of Liguria, short dresses and breezy blouses signal a summer of sun-kissed days-and nights [...]

Byline: BY BELINDA HUIJUAN TANG Photographed by Reven Lei. COUNTRY PURSUITS Amid the wide grasslands and splendid mountains of Sichuan, in southwestern China, prim jackets and long, romantic skirts outfit [...]

The light does such magical things on this hillside that, as I walk the steep narrow lanes between fields, I can't take my eyes off a distant, golden-topped mountain range. [...]

High life Taki New York Living a life of pleasure is fun, but it can also become tiresome. Living an ethical life of responsibility is beneficial to the soul, but [...]

Pashka Bystrov, known around the village as Speedy, was leaning back against the warm stove and despondently watching his wife, Galka. Her hair still in curlers, she was tossing her […]

High life Taki Mercedes Benz heir Mick Flick and I have been friends for more than half a century. We both married Schoenburgs, both like the odd drink, both adore [...]

An isolated Provencal stone farmhouse from the outside; from the inside a comfortable English country house. Sunk into the garrigue a short distance away is an impossibly blue infinity swimming [...]

The view from the upstairs window was of other large and secluded houses perched on other still-green Surrey Hills. I spent six days here. Every day the owner would go [...]

Pearls are products of an oyster depositing nacre, layer by layer, over a piece of irritating grit over a long period of time. Diamonds come from eons of epic pressure [...]

Pearls are products of an oyster depositing nacre, layer by layer, over a piece of irritating grit over a long period of time. Diamonds come from eons of epic pressure [...]

Pearls are products of an oyster depositing nacre, layer by layer, over a piece of irritating grit over a long period of time. Diamonds come from eons of epic pressure [...]

Pearls are products of an oyster depositing nacre, layer by layer, over a piece of irritating grit over a long period of time. Diamonds come from eons of epic pressure [...]

Byline: Christopher Bollen Photographs by Julien Capmeil MOUNTAIN TIME Bohemian and beautiful, the Berkshires have been a pastoral escape for artists fleeing city life for decades. Today a new generation [...]

If you want to understand Surrey, look at the house names. Keepers' Copse, Meadow View, Weavers, Highfields... What do all these names have in common? They describe something rural that [...]

Byline: Rebecca Bearden Its arrival in late March and early April was a sure sign that warmer weather was officially here to stay. Both flirty and refreshing, the wild honeysuckle's [...]

Byline: Rebecca Bearden Its arrival in late March and early April was a sure sign that warmer weather was officially here to stay. Both flirty and refreshing, the wild honeysuckle's [...]

Christmas in the countryside - what could be better? All right, at the time of writing we've had such storms that the swans are swimming across the flooded fields and [...]

'That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency,' wrote George Eliot in Middlemarch, 'has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps [...]

Aidan Hartley Laikipia Plateau, Kenya Until only a few years ago, the constellations blazed across the sky above the farm at night and there was not a single electric light [...]

From the veranda of a small Irish farmhouse, I looked out over the sun-drenched West Cork peninsula. All I could hear was the clank of the boat yard below. 'How [...]

Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a week. When the sun shines relentlessly and it never rains, [...]

The woman pulled up in her flashy 4x4 which was meandering along the farm track in that way people have when they have 'questions'. People in Surrey often have questions [...]

Although fatigued to the point of catatonia, and sitting there like a 19th-century Fang funeral mask, I am glad to contribute to the gaiety of a dinner party by being [...]

I have a lawn now. Soon I won't. The lawn I have has a regional name, the Catskill lawn, which indicates its impossibility. With preparation and vigilance, you can maintain [...]

Our first winters in the country, our driveway was plowed by a friend of a friend who did it almost as a lark. A twelve-pack of beer was his price [...]

On Saturdays, smoke drifts over the village. The banyas are being heated. The bitter haze, from birch or aspen, floats everywhere. The old folks have the black banyas, the ones […]

Moonshine has always been made in the countryside, under our Tsar-Father, and when the Revolution was on, and during the official crackdown on alcohol. Sure it has, because it's stronger […]

They are starting to cut the corn. But apart from combine harvesters and tractors, the roads up here on the Somme ridges are empty, the villages more or less deserted. [...]

If you live in the woods, you have to deal with trees. There's no way around it. When we came back from an errand the other day I saw, as [...]

The 238-acre Scheckel family farm lies smack dab in the heart of Crawford County, near Seneca in southwestern Wisconsin. This is hill country, untouched by glaciers. The roads are so [...]

IT was an especially contemporary experience, and an unpleasant one, to learn of the death of my friend Doug on Twitter. The backstory: Doug went into the hospital at the [...]

I'm avoiding the village pub. Since Clarkson's Farm I constantly get asked: 'Are farm economics really as bad as that?' They're worse. For anyone who is not a multimillionaire TV [...]

Surprise, surprise. The person who had the shield taken out of the street light so it shone back into my bedroom window was precisely the person it was always going [...]

When Judaism, that radioactive element, decays, it becomes other elements on the periodic table of the mind. Some would say Christianity is one such. Marx and Freud are more recent [...]

My ancestors came from Eastern Europe and Ireland, and for a couple of generations before I was born, my father's family farmed in rural Pennsylvania and my mother's people lived [...]

It feels a privilege to step out and vanish into the seeming nothingness of fog. The unseen speaks to the possibility and mystery in all things Where I live, the [...]