Local Reality Quotes

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

All those who came out of my neighborhood before me. Beyond those you see on TV, the most important people are those who are close to you because they share the same reality.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.