To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.”
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Kropotkin describes the positive living conditions in rural areas, contrasting them with urban misery.
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