Simon Rattle

In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath to be seen there in case people think it is elitist. That is a real shame because it also means we are not allowing our politicians a hinterland that an earlier generation, a Denis Healey, would have taken for granted.

English Musician

Vanessa Redgrave

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.

English Actress

Steve Erickson

Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult.

American Novelist

Jacqueline Novogratz

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

American Businesswoman

Peter York

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

British Journalist

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Virtually no other state concentrates as much political, economic and cultural power in its capital city. Even Paris is less economically dominant than London and its hinterland.

British Politician

Joe Slovo

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

South African Politician

Dawn Foster

Focusing on the gifted always leaves people behind, and portrays working-class people as a repellent hinterland that 'gifted' and 'talented' children need rescuing from.

Robert D. Kaplan

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

American Journalist

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

American Politician

Hinterland doesn't exclusively mean rural; it's the area that supports a nearby place.

Not Always Rural

Often used in geography describing often less-developed or less-populated sections of land.

Geographical Use

Sometimes implies a place with fewer amenities compared to urban centers.

Cultural Implication

Used to highlight the supportive role of rural to urban economic activities.

Economic Context

Emphasizes importance of areas outside cities for resources and materials.

Resource Significance

Often implies socio-economic processes, not just a physical location.

Beyond Geography

 in the hinterlands of the psyche. But in both cases, it turns out that there is also the same remedy for self-restoration, and that is that you have got to find your way back home again as swiftly and smoothly as you can, and if you're wondering what your home is, here's a Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

Success, failure and the...

 same time which means that unlike many other cities which have the benefits of large national hinterlands in many cities which don't have to take care of their national security we do actually have to look at that and I would say that actually it's not just the island that's important but it's the Pfister interconnection amongst the city-state

New ways to understand...

 if you will in the the mystery of this place is also the sense that he brought to the project early on that this is a fragile cultural heritage that really demands a significant degree of preservation the nepali state is very poor they have very limited control over the activities that take place in the hinterlands and so there's a

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 American hinterland but in the 21st century we're moving closer together we're trying to be near one another we're taking advantage of the tremendous advantages that being close to other human beings have now the success of cities in the developing world Dwarfs anything that's going on in the developed world we've just recently

It’s time to embrace our...

 anything if we can you know those who are able to go out to the pharmacy or whatever can go pick something up it kind of is heartening even though we're all scared you know everybody is frightened of kind of what's happening and what's to come and it's this weird hinterland that we're all in where you

How we can navigate the...

 And the terrain is offered back to the river, as with the monsoon the water swells again. And it's this sort of imagination as a kit of parts that allows this disassembly and the reabsorption of all this material. So the electricity poles go to little villages in the hinterland,

The architectural wonder...

 Rome in fact used to import oysters from London, at one stage. I think that's extraordinary. So Rome shaped its hinterland through its appetite. But the interesting thing is that the other thing also happened in the pre-industrial world.

Carolyn Steel: How food...

 as severe and as awful as those situations have been, they're a dress rehearsal for what's to come. No city is an island. Every city is connected to its rural hinterland in complex ways -- often, in relation to the production of food.

The biggest risks facing...

 as from the hinterlands it comes from Earth with a high iron ore content and produces a beautiful rich reddish orange color every morning we used to follow our Cairo girlfriends down to the river where they would wash their bodies in

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 in the villages, in the slums, in the hinterland of the country -- who have solved problems through their own genius, without any outside help. When our home minister announces