America Quote by David Simon

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

— David Simon

“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

With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism,…

— David Simon

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

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

— Mason Cooley

One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town,…

— James Howard Kunstler

Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the…

— Jesmyn Ward

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's…

— Tom Vilsack

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a…

— Debra Granik

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

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

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan