Quotes About Land

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

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

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

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

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.