Century Quote by Agnes Repplier

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout…

— Jane Jacobs

There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

— Plato

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

— John Henry Fischer

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

— Peter Drucker

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a…

— Edward Abbey

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

— Anthony Trollope