Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude (ed. 1898)


The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical...

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical...

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical...

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical...