Rose Wilder Lane Quote

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social 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.


Ch. 1. - Old Home Town (1935)


There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they...

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they...

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they...

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they...