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Topic·Rural vs. urban✕clear
Classical antiquity2 quotes
The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do. — Socrates · 370 BCIt was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities. — Marcus Terentius Varro · 27 BC
American Revolutionary Period1 quote
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787
Old Testament Era1 quote
Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. — Genesis 25:27 · 1405 BC