Quote for Today: Ali Smith
Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever go, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to …
Quote for Today: Lena Dunham
You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live …
Quote for Today: Isabel Allende
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. —Isabel Allende
Quote for Today: Hugo Hamilton
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at …
Quote for Today: Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much …
Quote for Today: Willa Cather
While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun, we sat in the observation car, where …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
The October Country …that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. …
From the Country to the City: 30 Years by Shan Ren
The band Shan Ren (山人), or Mountain People, hails from the remote Yunnan Province in southwestern China and combines indigenous folk music with rock and reggae. Utilizing varied instruments from local …