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“I was born for the peaceful life,
for rural quiet:
the lyre's voice in the wild is more resounding,
creative dreams are more alive.
To harmless leisures consecrated,
I wander by a wasteful lake
and far niente is my rule.
By every morn I am awakened
unto sweet mollitude and freedom;
little I read, a lot I sleep,
fugitive fame do not pursue.
Was it not thus in former years,
that I spent in inaction, in the shade,
my happiest days?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“Sometimes at night I would leave the lights on in my little house and walk across the flat fields. When I looked back from a distance, the house looked like a boat at sea. And all around me the vast Delta night.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.”
― Jan Reid, Deep Water Tears

“The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.”
― Garret Keizer, No Place But Here Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence: Melville & Hawthorne, James & Wharton, Porter & Welty, Bishop & Lowell

“If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.”
― Carolyn Chute

“If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.”
― Carolyn Chute

“At last, we arrived home. Indian Vale. The house my father had built that had become mine and that one day would be my daughter’s, if she chose to stay in the area. She wouldn’t, though. Why should she? The young people here moved somewhere else as fast as they could, and the old folks withered away and died. The factories vanished and the mines and mills sank into the ground, and in their places were erected fast food joints and furniture rental places and pawnshops. Sometimes I hear places like where I live called “Real America,â€� and I know it rankles some folks—city folks, mostly—something awful, and I wish I could tell them it’s only done out of politeness. That it’s only people saying nice things about the dying.”
― Jason Miller, Red Dog

“In addition, when they talked as if city people lived by different values, they were not emphasizing abortion, or gay marriage, or the things that are typically pointed to as the cultural issues that divide lower-income whites from the Democratic Party. Instead, the values they talked about were intertwined with economic concerns.”
― Katherine J. Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

“Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.”
― Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

“The town of North Falls consisted of twenty-eight square miles positioned on a high plateau in the southern region of the Green Mountain range. It had the highest altitude of any village in the state, which meant the snow came early and it came often. It also meant that the first thing anybody noticed about the town was the church steeple. The rotting whitewashed wood and the slatted oval window and the copper spire all connected to the simple wood framing. It was the highest point in the state, and people liked to say that it was closer to God than anywhere else in Vermont. Not that it did the town much good.”
― Ian Pisarcik, Before Familiar Woods

“No es nuevo que los pueblos miren con desprecio, miedo y odio a unas ciudades que, cuanto más crecen, más desprecio, miedo y odio inspiran.”
― Sergio del Molino, La España vacía: Viaje por un país que nunca fue

“Rural and traditional escapism. That’s my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“It was a country life, a precious existence.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“Il vino buono si beve solo d'estate, quando si deve fare molto lavoro: si porta sul campo per pranzo o quando si ha bisogno di energia. (la dieta di un contadino mantovano nel 1870)”
― Gabriele Pallotti, Che storia! La storia italiana raccontata in modo semplice e chiaro

“Balbino. Un rapaz da aldea. Coma quen di, un ninguén. E ademais, pobre.”
― Xosé Neira Vilas

“Quiero contarle cómo se despidió mi abuela de nuestra casa. Le pidió a papá que sacara del desván un saco de grano y lo esparció por el jardín: "Para los pajarillos de Dios". Recogió en un cesto los huevos y los echó al patio: "Para nuestro gato y para el perro". Les cortó unos trozos de tocinoo. De todos los saquitos echó las simientes: de zanahoria, de calabaza, de pepinos, de cebollas. De diferentes flores. Y las esparció por el huerto: "Que vivan en la tierra". Luego le hizo una reverencia a la casa. Se inclinó ante el cobertizo. Recorrió los manzanos y los saludó a cada uno. Y el abuelo se quitó el gorro cuando nos marchamos.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“It is known to the medical profession that a natural diet and a rural outdoor lifestyle can treat many health conditions far better than prescription drugs.”
― Steven Magee

“Those with common sense will live in the rural tropics during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Ningún dictador ha maltratado tanto y tan persistentemente la España rural como Franco.”
― Sergio del Molino, La España vacía: Viaje por un país que nunca fue

“17 per cent jump in gender-based violence cases, with urban areas witnessing a particular spike.”
― United Nations

“As a radiation researcher, I knew it was wise to live in a rural area away from man-made radiation. My social responsibilities kept me in the radiation toxic city where I was able to develop radiation resistance health techniques.”
― Steven Magee

“esas cosas pueden ayudar a sobrellevar mejor el día a día; volver a la naturaleza, escapar del sarcófago de cemento que era ahora la ciudad”
― Carlos Sisí, ±·±ð³¦°ùó±è´Ç±ô¾±²õ

“Around the time of the summer solstice, when the sun shines brightest on our little corner of the world, field after field of hay is cut, baled and carted away in a non-stop parade of wagons, up and down the rural routes.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Comfort

“I bought every kind of machine that's known-
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,
Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers-
And all of them stood in the rain and sun,
Getting rusted, warped and battered,
For I had no sheds to store them in,
And no use for most of them.
And toward the last, when I thought it over,
There by my window, growing clearer
About myself, as my pulse slowed down,
And looked at one of the mills I bought-
Which I didn't have the slightest need of,
As things turned out, and I never ran-
A fine machine, once brightly varnished,
And eager to do its work,
Now with its paint washed off-
I saw myself as a good machine
That Life had never used.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief that the universe is already perfect as it is, and that our duty as humans is to maintain that harmony. This was a sentiment I heard often from farmers as I traveled throughout the countryside . One farmer told me that the future is a created concept, and that in the fields, in the long dark of winters, there is no future, because every day depends on tending to the present moment. An act of care. In contrast, urban culture is centered on the belief that the universe must be constantly corrected on its course, and that life is defined by the pleasure of overcoming future challenges.”
― Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

“In rural England, people live wrapped tight in a cocoon; only their eyes move to make sure nobody gets more than themselves. Popular education has not touched them; they communicate as their fathers did by a flick of the eyeballs, passing down grudges either improve upon or, at very least, in mint condition, from generation to generation.”
― J.L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup