Gail Collins Quotes

No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they want to live out in the country, with their own projects. We’ll put up the buildings for them, design the buildings for them, design the food production systems for them – if they want us to. But we don’t control them.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

When you've got big sky, big places and less people, people act differently and treat each other differently. It's tangible. It's not just a concept. I grew up in the country and then moved to the city, and there is a tangible difference.

In rural America you need a different set of skills. You get to a city and you have to do a 180.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

the simplicity & quiet ease of village life, is all humbug. The city is the only place to gain a knowledge of the world.

I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.

Millennials want to live in urban areas.

Having lived in a big city like Mumbai, I feel it gives you another personality in a way.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live in the city on a daily basis, because I really do spend a great deal of my time, when I'm not on the road, in my studio - everyday, everyday, everyday.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!