New Zealand is the most English country I have seen outside England itself � and more beautiful than England.

Anthony Trollope Victorian Novelist, visited 1872

New Zealand has always punched above its weight � a nation of breathtaking natural beauty and people with an enormous amount of heart.

Barack Obama US President, 44th

New Zealand is the most beautiful country on earth. It is not so much a country as a whole world in miniature.

Bill Bryson Author & Travel Writer

I gotta say, God really outdid himself down here. This place is fantastic.

Bob Harper The Biggest Loser TV show trainer

There's a real purity in New Zealand... It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world any more.

Elijah Wood Frodo in The Lord of the Rings

New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island.

Evangeline Lilly Tauriel in The Hobbit

New Zealand is the most progressive country in the world. You have no slums, no unemployment. Come here and see what a country can be.

George Bernard Shaw Playwright & Author, visited 1934

New Zealand is the most achingly beautiful place I have ever seen. Every valley, every mountain � it is almost unbearably lovely.

Joanna Lumley Actress & Television Presenter

Whenever I get stressed I just want to hop on a plane to Queenstown.

John Travolta Actor

New Zealand is a fairy land � beautiful beyond anything I had been led to expect. The government should lock it up and charge admission.

Mark Twain American Author, visited 1895

Wherever you point a camera in New Zealand, you get a stunning image. The whole country is a film set.

Peter Jackson Film Director, Wellington

I can't believe Nelsonians get to wake up in this amazing paradise every morning.

Sir Ian McKellen Gandalf in Lord of the Rings

Fiordland, ladies and gentlemen. What a spectacle. Earth Destination Number One.

Stephen Fry Actor

New Zealand stands as a model to the world. Her people are the finest fighters and the most loyal friends the Empire has ever known.

Winston Churchill British Prime Minister
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