Quote by Monica Hesse

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate

“Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

“In the meantime, I tried my best to acclimate to my new life in the middle of nowhere. I had to get used to…

— Ree Drummond

“A lot of people find rural landscapes relaxing.” “Sure, until you start wondering what’s creeping behind those trees, or slithering along in the grass.”

— J.D. Robb

“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

“Almost nothing lives here anymore, except where we plant it? No. No, no, no. We don’t know any of that. We have tea parties…

— M.T. Anderson

“Just think how it would look if a reader walked into a café you'd recommended and found it taken over by vegetarians.”

— Anne Tyler

“I take the long way home and circle the neighborhood. The leaves have started to fall and collect in small heaps under the carefully…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“I know again why I favor it so much here, how I esteem the hush of this suburban foliage in every season, the surprising…

— Chang-rae Lee

“any dairies or pig farms around there. We could”

— John Sandford