Land And Water Quotes

• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Thinking, Land

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• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

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• The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Land, Water, Environmental

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• Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

  David Wallace

  Land, Water, Perceive

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• The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

  Rachel Carson

  Sea, Land, Long

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Rain, Moving, Lakes

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• Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

  Allan Savory

  Food, Army, Agriculture

  "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

  Susan Sontag

  Life, Simple, Air

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

  Chief Seattle

  Nature, Air, Land

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorable, Lakes, Land

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• Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

  Mike McAlary

  Rain, Power, Land

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• To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Country, Men, Land

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• This land is your land, this land is my land

  Woody Guthrie

  Land, Redwoods, Trespassing

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

  Chief Seattle

  Military, Land, Sky

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• Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Power, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.293

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• When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Land, Oil

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• Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

  John F. Kerry

  Tired, Fire, Air

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• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Ron Kind

  Government, Land, Oil

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• The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Land, America

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• I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

  Christopher Columbus

  Stars, Moon, Land

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• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mother, Hard Work, Feet

  "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• The word
  was born in the blood,
  grew in the dark body, beating,
  and took flight through the lips and the mouth.
  Farther away and nearer
  still, still it came
  from dead fathers and from wondering races,
  from lands which had turned to stone,
  lands weary of their poor tribes,
  for when grief took to the roads
  the people set out and arrived
  and married new land and water
  to grow their words again.
  And so this is the inheritance;
  this is the wavelength which connects us
  with dead men and the dawning
  of new beings not yet come to light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Father, Grief, Dark

  Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans, Robert Bly (2007). “I explain a few things: selected poems”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.

  Winona LaDuke

  Prayer, Struggle, Years

  Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.64, Voyageur Press (MN)

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