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She told him about her childhood on a farm and of her love for animals, about country sounds and country smells and of how fresh and clean everything in the country is. She said that he ought to live there and that if he did, he would find that all his troubles were city troubles.
This chapter was one of 12 papers delivered at the Smithsonian Institution Annual Symposium, February 16–18, 1967 and published as the Smithsonian Annual II, The Fitness of Man’s Environment, with an introduction by Jennie Lee, Smithsonian Institution Press, City of Washington, 1968.
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Robert Frost, “Letter to William Stanley Brathwaite,” in Mark Richardson (ed.), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), xvii.
Ernest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I,” in Hemingway on Fishing (New York: Simon and Schuster, 20 (2), 7.
Lewis Mumford, “Constancy and Change,” New Yorker (March 6, 1965), 57.
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Marx, L. (2009). Pastoral Ideals and City Troubles. In: Thompson, M.J. (eds) Fleeing the City. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101050_5
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