"The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability."

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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

— Vita Sackville-West