The Country and the City Quotes

“From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the instinct of fellow-feeling is derived. Thus an essential isolation and silence and loneliness become the carriers of nature and community against the rigours, the cold abstinence, the selfish ease of ordinary society.”
― Raymond Williams, The Country and the City

“It ought in any case to be clear that English experience is especially significant. In that one of the decisive transformations, in the relations between country and city, occurred very early and with a thoroughness which is still in some ways unappoached.”
― Raymond Williams, The Country and the City