One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to cou...ntry air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But you forget, or did you ever know, His heritage of cabbage and pigtails,... Old intimacy with alleys, garbage pails, Down in the deep (but always beautiful) South....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled pro...vincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer soc...ial life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep, ...and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »