Bigotry Quote by Sharon Lovejoy

“With each surge of westward movement a new community came into being. These communities devoted themselves not to marching onward but to cultivating the…

— Henry Nash Smith

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes…

— Krista Tippett

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of antique furniture,…

— Marcel Proust

“the entire history of our family has played out in the fields and villages stretching away beneath that fell, between Lake District and Pennines,…

— James Rebanks

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite fresh and,…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Katherine Applegate

“Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years of…

— E.B. White

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York.…

— Bill McKibben

“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had always read…

— H.P. Lovecraft