Country life Quote by Solomon Northrup

“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”

— Louis L'Amour

“.., but I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but alone despite…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The city is built on an inhuman scale. Everything is by design inconvenient for Homo sapiens.”

— Andrew Meier

“Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than…

— Katherine Mansfield

“One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.”

— Douglas Adams

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

“Without the earth, where can humankind live?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sometimes, the loneliest place is not being far from home, but being surrounded by people who can't see beyond their own borders.”

— Camellia Yang