Quote by Lakambini A. Sitoy

“All my life, I've been trying to adhere to the surface of your city...”

— Bhanu Kapil

“Now here I am, living in the land of tall pine trees and red dirt hills”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong…

— Jim Harrison

“All I heard were the bumps and crunches of my tires on the dirt road, blending with the dark noises of the forest. But…

— Lauren Myracle

“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming…

— Tod Wodicka

“Sometimes I felt just like those trees, rooted in mud with no escape, while my life sat in a car and passed me by.”

— Bianca Scardoni

“You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.”

— Gao Xingjian

“Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can…

— Louis L'Amour

“This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of…

— Jonathan Maberry

“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.”

— Kevin Powers

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy