Quotes about Rural

My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Many people are just waking to the reality that unlimited expansion, what we call progress, is not possible in this world, and maybe looking to monks (who seek to live within limitations) as well as rural Dakotans (whose limitations are forced upon them by isolation and a harsh climate) can teach us how to live more realistically. These unlikely people might also help us overcome the pathological fear of death and the inability to deal with sickness and old age that plague American society.

And how sweet that would have been: the two of them back by the milk shed, squatting by the churn, smashing cold, lumpy butter into their faces with not a care in the world.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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.

I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.