"Inside me, my boyhood feels so close, but when I look around, it sometimes seems to belong to a vanished world. In the United States in the late 1990's, is it really possible to imagine whole families, boys and girls of eight to eighteen at their parents' sides in the cotton fields, working through the July heat from dawn to dusk, driving away exhaustion with songs of the spirit? Are there still places where a young boy can leave his house after breakfast with just a fishing pole and spend the whole day rumbling and adventuring alone, unsupervised and unafraid, trusted and un-feared for? (...) I think that even if such palces do exist, our televisions have blinded us to them."
(Johnny Cash, Cash. The autobiography of Johnny Cash, Harper, 2006 (ed. or. 1997), p. 13
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