“It’s not a simple idea, but many ideas and attitudes,
including a reverence for nature and a preference for country life;
a desire for maximum personal self-reliance and creative leisure;
a concern for family nurture and community cohesion;
a belief that the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money;
a certain nostalgia for the supposed simplicities of the past
and an anxiety about the technological and bureaucratic complexities of the present and the future,
and a taste for the plain and the functional.”
Jerry Belanger, Countryside Magazine.