The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.


Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (ed. 1849)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is...

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is...

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is...

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is...