In plain words
For pure air, pure water, and for leading a clean life, the villages are the chief places. In the towns the water and the air, all of it, are full of dirt. Because the houses stand close to one another, carbon dioxide gathers thick in the air. Because of this, many diseases come to the town-dwellers above all; to the villagers, fewer. Yet the amenities that everyone needs are few. The villagers do not have the discernment to know what water we should drink and what water we should not drink. The town-dwellers, on the other hand, know good and bad, yet it is the bad they take to; the good they do not desire in the least. This is nothing but the folly that lies within the wisdom of education! To one who does not read books, the worms show up in the soil. To one who studies without end, holding that books alone matter and study alone is the foundation, the books themselves look like worms. For the educated man who puts something of it, however little, into practice, life itself stands as an ideal. So only the educated man who takes the good as his ideal and puts it into practice is truly educated. Because there is no drainage in the villages, they are dirtier still. In the holy land of Bhārata there is no shortage of any kind. There are vast lands. There are rivers on which life depends. The perennial rivers keep flowing. In ancient times people tilled their own lands themselves and kept bringing plenty to the country. In the modern age, the very tilling of their own lands themselves seems a burden to people. Not only have the towns grown; because Industries and factories have grown up in the villages, even the holy villages have turned unholy. Because all the farmland is sold at high prices to factories and industries, the farmers have cut down on raising crops, sold their lands, and are living in the towns. What is the reason? By selling, rather than by the crop, a higher price comes to them.