Quotes About Rural

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'

I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.

Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs.

In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe - and Jussi.

Monocultures and monopolies symbolize patriarchal agriculture. The war mentality underlying military-industrial agriculture is evident from the names given to the herbicides destroying the economic basis of the survival of the poorest women in the rural areas of the Third World. Roundup, Machete, and Lasso from Monsanto. Pentagon, Prowl, Scepter, Squadron, Cadre, and Avenge from American Home Products, which has merged with Monsanto. The language is of war, not sustainability.

Living in a fairly remote village one soon learns to accept that having a roof, a fire, some warm clothes and enough to eat are really the only material essentials for a comfortable life.

he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.

You might be a redneck if you keep a fly swatter in the front seat of the car so you can reach your kids in the back seat of the car.

You might be a redneck if your bumper sticker says, My other car is a combine.

Approximately 60 per cent of the agricultural population was deemed to be too poor to pay taxes.

We might treat a rabbit as a pet or become emotionally attached to a goose, but we had come from cities and supermarkets, where flesh was hygienically distanced from any resemblance to living creatures. A shrink-wrapped pork chop has a sanitized, abstract appearance that has nothing whatever to do with the warm, mucky bulk of a pig. Out here in the country there was no avoiding the direct link between death and dinner.

Now there was silence. For hours on end the valley would be completely still and empty, and we became curious. What was everybody doing? Faustin, we knew, traveled around the neighboring farms as a visiting slaughterer, slitting the throats and breaking the necks of rabbits and ducks and pigs and geese so that they could be turned into terrines and hams and confits.

The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning...

Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat