Anybody can be good in the country. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. – George William Russell
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! – Henri Rousseau
[T]here is no practice… which tends to renovate the constitution, than a temporary retirement to the country… – John Sinclair, The Code of Health and Longevity, c.1815
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. – Arianna Stassinopoulos
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. – Talcott Parsons
