Ada kebajikan di rumah-rumah pedesaan, di kebun dan kebun, di ladang, sungai dan kebun, dalam rekreasi pedesaan dan sopan santun, yang tidak dinikmati kota maupun universitas. Asli: There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

— Amos Bronson Alcott