Land Quotes - Page 6

• Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Home, Sea, Secure

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• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Practice, Pieces, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

  Francois Quesnay

  Giving, Stills, Property

  "The EuroAtlantic Union Review: Vol. 1 - No. 0/2014". Book by Dario Velo, p. 96, 2014.

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• All of the land of Israel is ours.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Israel

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• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  John Jakes

  California, Gold, Treasure

  John Jakes (2012). “California Gold”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Europe, Rights, World

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• It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Animal, Yield

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  Alistair Cooke

  Air, Car, Gas Stations

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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• What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Unique

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

  Emma Goldman

  Vision, World, Individual

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Race, Shining

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

  Claude Brown

  Running, Doe, Promised Land

  Manchild in the Promised Land foreword (1965)

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• No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Native American

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• The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing

  Francis Parker Yockey

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• Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

  Wendell Berry

  Body

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.26, Counterpoint

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  In the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king!

  Chris Farley

  Kings, Reality, Smell

  "Fictional character: Jimmy". "Dirty Work", www.imdb.com. June 12, 1998.

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• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Water, Environmental

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• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

  Euripides

  Grief, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Stars, Children

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• I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Struggle, Believe, Territory

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's remarks at a meeting with King Hussein as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 172), 2006.

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• Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Years, Needs

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• politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Conversation, Dangerous

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