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Quotes About Rural

When you move like we did from town to town in these mostly rural areas, word of mouth gets your message out to customers pretty quickly without much advertising.
~ Sam Walton
ANES  (ANES)  AWNS  (AWNS)  n.s. The spires or beards of corn. Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
~ John Adams
they only trusted the wisdom of people brighter and more worldly than themselves when it was expressed in the vocabulary and style of rural idiots. In his guise as Brazenydol, he had once had a contract with DARPA to teach a team of physicists the basic terminology of tractor pulls so that they could give an acceptable explanation of omniwavelength stealth to a Congressional committee that didn't understand tractor pulls, either.
~ John Barnes
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements in that sentence are connected by an and and not by a but.
~ John Berger
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
~ John Berger
I am the great terror of the squires, they seem to be seized with a sort of bucolic mania in dealing with me.
~ John Bright
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
~ Diego Della Valle
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
~ Mason Cooley
My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
~ Andie MacDowell
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
~ Beilby Porteus
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.
~ William Atherton
Americans who live in metropolitan areas with more than a million residents are, on average, more than 50 percent more productive than Americans who live in smaller metropolitan areas. These relationships are the same even when we take into account the education, experience, and industry of workers. They're even the same if we take individual workers' IQs into account. The income gap between urban and rural areas is just as large in other rich countries, and even
~ Edward L. Glaeser
Chicago's success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.
~ Edward Luce
An acre of land between the shore and the hills... A garden I need never go beyond, Broken but neat, whose sunflowers every one Are fit to be the sign of the Rising Sun...
~ Edward Thomas
small pasture where corn was grown for flour and chicken feed visible through the trunks east of his position. The open spaces between the trees were as cauldrons of heat where the foliage was brown, the heads of grasses bowed to the ground as if praying for rain. He stopped in the shade and adjusted the straps of the wood and cloth basket
~ Edwin Page
Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking...
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People who live near & close to the Mother Nature in villages or on mountains are oft found to have a better sensitive nature than those who stay in town & city.
~ Anuj Somany
There are more asses in cities than in villages.
~ Anuj Somany
The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
~ I. M. Pei
I like where I lived in Alnwick; I always tell people about it. There's so much to do there, even though it's so small and quaint.
~ Lucy Bronze
I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.
~ Bruce Boxleitner
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
~ Geoffrey Fisher