Areas Quote by Chinua Achebe

“Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent…

— Janisse Ray

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

— Mason Cooley

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it…

— Don A Dillman

I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one. And, number…

— Tom Vilsack

Might it be that the Transition approach, of creating vibrant local economies with increased community ownership, meeting practical needs from as nearby as possible,…

— Rob Hopkins

When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards…

— Chrystia Freeland

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in…

— David Simon

There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to…

— Andrew Robb

What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.

— Xi Jinping

But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places…

— Wendell Berry

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new…

— Narendra Modi

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In…

— Lael Brainard