Economic growth was too slow for the workers and farmers who left to seek work elsewhere.

Many blacks voted with their feet and left the South to seek better conditions.

Because of this, she eventually left to seek human civilization.

Family members were often estranged when women and children left to seek other work.

"Half the educated people will leave to seek lives in the West," he said.

Many citizens left the South to seek opportunities in new western lands.

And every year, more than 400,000 people continue to leave villages to seek opportunity in cities.

When he left to seek medical treatment, his wife and five children had food for only 20 days, which would be running out, he said.

The three of them pray for her before the father leaves to seek help.

But he'd already done everything humanly possible; now the only place left to seek help was beyond the human.