Village Life Quotes:

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

- Roger Hilsman

topic: War, Village Life, Done

Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

- Timothy Leary

source: Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

topic: Moon, Village Life, Space, Space Time, Big Government

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.414, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

topic: Village Life, Forests, Wilderness

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

- Alan D. Eames

topic: Beer, Agriculture, Village, Village Life, Nomadic

It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.

- Laura Thielen

topic: Children, Reality, Cities, Village Life

When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

- Henry Williamson

source: Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

topic: Country, Heart, Pride, Village Life