Quotes about Rural

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

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

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.

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

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

In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.