I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about. — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
“...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of… — John A. Hostetler Copy Share Image
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
“I suppose he represented the worst of what rural life can do to a man: he was racist, uneducated, and badly in… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
They say country music stands for more than the rural life. It's about life, period, whether lived in a high-rise or a… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
“In cities and factories, the vices of our nature are more fully displayed,” declared James Hammond of South Carolina in 1829, while… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus,… — Tabish Khair Copy Share Image
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her.… — Andrew Geyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie . . . has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges.… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“The central theme of Anna Karenina," he said, "is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Before drawing any affirmative conclusions let us first note the absence of the concept of imitation as a general pastoral or moral… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power,… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate fish fries in the backyard, kiddie pools in the front yard, and unfettered views of a thousand starts… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“Powerful forces led me to the Hammers and then to the neighbors and suggested that the qualities I witnessed in their lives… — Archie Lieberman Copy Share Image
“The “dual economy” paradigm, originally proposed in 1955 by Sir Arthur Lewis, still shapes the way that most social scientists think about… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“I felt calm well, maybe not calm but safe. For the first time during a Montana thunderstorm, I did feel safe.” — Wayne Edwards Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
