Abomination Quote by James Norman Hall

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

— James Norman Hall

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

— Ralph Nader

“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

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to city towns…

— Cory Booker

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

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

— Anthony Trollope

“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more…

— Ken Ilgunas

As we see dislocation and disruption in certain parts of the country, from rural areas to my home in the industrial Midwest, and in…

— Pete Buttigieg

“The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the…

— Edward Abbey

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

— Mason Cooley

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

— Euripides

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky…They will never be the same again…

— NoViolet Bulawayo