Rural Life Quotes

• Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
  Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
  The tone of languid nature.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sight, Silence

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.170

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• Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

  Mason Cooley

  Country, Gone, Wealth

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• Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Law, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Ideas, People, Attention

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• Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

  Charles Lamb

  Doors, Sound, Urban

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'Valentine's Day'

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• Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.

  Debra Granik

  Heart, Mean, Land

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.

  Ibn Khaldun

  History, Doe, Three

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• The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Simple, Civilization

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.336, Read Books Ltd

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• In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

  John Tyler

  Bed, Littles, Thorns

  Farewell remarks, 1845.

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• A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Book, Sheep

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• It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

  Jane Jacobs

  Romantic, Moving, May

  Jane Jacobs (1961). “The Death and Life of American Cities”

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• One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Country, Children, Sunshine

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
  The venerable patriarch guileless held
  The tenor of his way.

  Beilby Porteus

  Life, Way, Tenors

  Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.55

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• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Sleep, Sacrifice

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