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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Earth Day, Tree, Environmental

  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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• I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Ownership

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 02, 2011

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• Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Motherhood, People, Giving

  'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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• Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

  Aldo Leopold

  Atoms, Tasks, Cracks

  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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• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Happiness, Hero, Atheism

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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• In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

  Shimon Peres

  Creativity, Technology, Israel

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• This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Running, World

  Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”

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• If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

  James Lovelock

  Environmental, Beef, Eating

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• I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

  Henry Hudson

  Travel, Adventure, May

  "Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in which His Career is Recorded, Collected, Partly Translated, and Annotated".

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• I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

  Harriet Tubman

  Freedom, Slavery, Lines

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Lying, America, Age

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• For as the old saying is,
  When house and land are gone and spent
  Then learning is most excellent.

  Samuel Foote

  Education, Money, House

  Samuel Foote (1797). “The Dramatic Works: Of Samuel Foote, Esq. To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. In Two Volumes. ...”, p.14

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• The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Inspirational, Mother, Native American

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press

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  I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

  John Brown

  War, Thinking, Blood

  John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

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• Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

  Noah Hathaway

  Fantasia, Imaginary

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, White

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Self, Water

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.318, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Foundation, Earth, Modern

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.696, Library of America

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• Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

  Junipero Serra

  Ocean, Sea, Found

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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Democracy, Relief, Development

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• I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

  Bob Menendez

  Law, Due Diligence, Vote

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• If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

  Henry James

  America, Would Be, Literature

  Henry James (1967). “Hawthorne”

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• As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Rome, Cities

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• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Afghanistan, Locked

  "After nearly a century, a modern Afghan railroad is under construction" by Ivan Watson, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2010.

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