The Guynd Quotes

“Darwin wrote, ‘It isn't the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but those most adaptable to change.”
― Belinda Rathbone, The Guynd: A Scottish Journal

“It also became evident that the Drummonds had away with dogs, as soon as they were all around our table and under it, the Lady slipping pieces of quiche to the retriever on my right, the Lord has stilton cheese to the spaniel on my left. I confess that at the Guynd (and did I dare to add that the dogs were admonished for not licking the plates properly?). 'Very sanitizing,’ agreed the Lady Strange.”
― Belinda Rathbone, The Guynd: A Scottish Journal

“For in spite of its relative poverty, in spite of its tiny population of five million, Scotland is studded with dukes and marquesses, earls and viscounts. There is more nobility per square mile of Scotland than anywhere else in the UK. And their tenacity to land and title is unsurpassed.”
― Belinda Rathbone, The Guynd: A Scottish Journal

“What would our American guests think of Scotland in the first place, I wondered. It wasn't England, not at all. You notice the change as soon as you cross the border on the A68 just South of Jedburgh, something monochrome about the palette, something pared down about the buildings.”
― Belinda Rathbone, The Guynd: A Scottish Journal

“How strange this all was to me, fresh from New York, where what matters is not where you come from but what you are doing there, not what happened years ago but what is happening now.”
― Belinda Rathbone, The Guynd: A Scottish Journal