Land Quotes

• Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Hair

  Presidential Inaugural Address, 10 May 1994

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• When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

  Chief Seattle

  Talking, Wire, Green Hills

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• You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was.

  Rick Riordan

  Bored, Tree, Different

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• You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

  Stephen King

  Needs, Hawks, Sojourners

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

  Anthony Trollope

  Feelings, Literature, Fly Away

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Last Chronicle of Barset”, p.517, Anthony Trollope

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• The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Garden, Pieces

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• There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Two, People, Relation

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• Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Garden, Energy

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fighting, Dying, World

  Gone with theWind pt. 1, ch. 2 (1936)

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• If a man owns land,
  the land owns him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.376

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• The land belongs to the future.

  Willa Cather

  Willa Cather (2016). “My Antonia / O Pioneers!”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

  Aldo Leopold

  Tasks, Pieces, Humans

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.548, Library of America

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• Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sleep, Effort, Community

  "Principles of Political Economy". Book by John Stuart Mill, book V, chap. 2, 1848.

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• Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Men, Harmony

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• You are the land. The land is you.

  Merlin Olsen

  Inspirational, Nfl

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• Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hands

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.556, Library of America

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• Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Estates, Realtors

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  Eartha Kitt

  Men, Giving, Care

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Gone Love, Wind, World

  Gone with theWind pt. 1, ch. 2 (1936)

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• I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Conservative, Behinds

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• My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Water, Community

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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