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1 " At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time and the inclination to communicate with the stars and the trees and the waves drifting ashore, one lives more intensely. "
― James A. Michener , The World Is My Home: A Memoir
2 " It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all. "
― Anna Godbersen
3 " Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. "
― Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
4 " I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. "
5 " Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. "
