Land Quotes - Page 2

• My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

  Gladys Taber

  World, Recipes, My Own

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Home, People

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.153, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, God, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin

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• O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

  Walt Whitman

  Dear

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Commitment, Insperational, Carpe Diem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• Lanscape shapes culture.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Culture, Shapes

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• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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

  Woody Guthrie

  Redwoods, Trespassing, Trekking

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

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• We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

  James Henry Breasted

  Cities, America, Transformation

  James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”

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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Environmental, Fruit

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, People, Guarantees

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Nature, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

  Martin Bormann

  Struggle, Earth, Perfectly Natural

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 873, 1993.

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• Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

  Henry Cabot Lodge

  Fall, Civilization, Liberty

  Speech Against the League of Nations, patriotpost.us. August 12, 1919.

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• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Attention, Crowds

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• And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Kings, People

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

  Edward Carpenter

  Dream, Father, Different

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Broken Heart, Sadness, Hard Times

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.38, eKitap Projesi

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• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

  Mark Twain

  Feet, America, People

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.648, eKitap Projesi

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• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Science, Soil

  Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937.

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• A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

  Aldo Leopold

  Beauty, Nature, Integrity

  A Sand County Almanac pt. 3 (1949)

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• Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

  Moshe Katsav

  Iran, Years, Long

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

  Anwar Sadat

  Peace, History, Pieces

  Speech, Cairo, 8 Mar. 1978

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• Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

  John Wooden

  Native American, Grandparent, Grandfather

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