"Such is the superiority of rural occupations and pleasures, that commerce, large societies, or crowded cities, may be justly reckoned unnatural. Indeed, the very purpose for which we engage in commerce is, that we may one day be enabled to retire to the country, where alone we picture to ourselves days of solid satisfactionm and undisturbed happiness. It is evident that such sentiments are natural to the human mind. " John Loudon, A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country Residences, 1806
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