Areas Quote by Chinua Achebe

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in…

— Chinua Achebe

“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power, culture, attraction…

— E.F. Schumacher

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

— Mason Cooley

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they…

— Bunker Roy

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

— Marty Natalegawa

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

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you…

— Wendell Berry

Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Anthony Trollope

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not…

— Matthew Desmond

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas…

— Chris Grayling