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Quotes About Rural

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
~ Alan Jackson
This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.
~ Michael Lang
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
~ Gavin DeGraw
At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
~ Muddy Waters
I grew up in the country surrounded by music.
~ Martina McBride
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
~ Dwight Yoakam
I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
~ Salma Hayek
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
~ William Cowper
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
~ William Wordsworth
I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.
~ Willow Smith
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
~ Jules Renard
Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
~ James Norman Hall
Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
~ Louise Penny
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
~ Hamlin Garland
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
~ Samuel Palmer
Never answer a question from a farmer.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.
~ David Brooks
Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
~ Will Rogers
And I made a rural pen,And I stain'd the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear.
~ William Blake
God made the country, and man made the town.
~ William Cowper
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
~ William Cowper
The tide of life, swift always in its course, May run in cities with a brisker force, But nowhere with a current so serene, Or half so clear, as in the rural scene.
~ William Cowper
forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The
~ William Dean Howells