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It felt like traversing the back roads of Napa to Tahoe — all classy ruralism.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

At the end of the cycle Roman culture was turning its back upon ruralism and moving into a culture that was to be chiefly urban during an entire millennium.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is—no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.