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Rural vs. urban12 quotes
The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do. — Socrates · 370 BCAway, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822I 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 · 1787It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities. — Marcus Terentius Varro · 27 BCI see the rural virtues leave the land. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton · 1820All 12 quotes →Cities4 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 BCIf you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton · 1820All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound · 1913Small town life2 quotes
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton · 1820The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. — Karl Marx · 1848Urbanization2 quotes
I see the rural virtues leave the land. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. — Karl Marx · 1848Bourgeoisie1 quote
The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. — Karl Marx · 1848Escape to nature1 quote
Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Jacob and Esau1 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