Quotes About Land

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

Captain considered it, and shrugged. It seems right, he said. It is not precisely what El wanted; but enthroned as he is in his Palace, viewing the Land from a high seat, he does not see its complexity. This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about it new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters.

On certain hilltops grew spruce forests, as fine and dense and soft-looking as the pelts of Arctic mammals. When the wind gusted through these, a sound issued from them that was like icy water hurrying over sharp stones. But most of the land was covered with heather, gone scab-colored for the winter. There the wind was silent, except for the raucous buller that it made as it banged around in the porches of Daniel's ears like a drunk burglar.

This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?' inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. 'You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again.

Por la lengua, la religión, la tenencia de la tierra y la estructura social, Irlanda era otro mundo.

Ownership of real property is second only to ownership of intellectual property

Rothschild . . . destroyed the predominance of land, by raising the system of state bonds to supreme power, thereby mobilising property and income and at the same time endowing money with the previous privileges of the land. He thereby created a new aristocracy, it is true, but this, resting as it does on the most unreliable of elements, on money, can never play as enduringly regressive a role as the former aristocracy, which was rooted in the land, in the earth itself.

Achaeans largely took over the south-eastern coast of Italy. This country is popularly supposed to have been given its name by the Greeks: Italia would be the land of (w)italoí, 'yearling cattle', a dialectal variant of etaloí, later borrowed in fact into Latin as vituli, and still with us in the word veal.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

I was lucky to land up in Mumbai when serious cinema was just beginning to flower.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

A renewal movement is at work within our nation, a movement of reconciliation with God. In our nation's short history there have been two great awakenings, and I believe the third is rising in the water. The water has come ashore, and soon it will splash across our desert land.

The silence in the cabin was broken by the hum of night creatures singing to one another. The sun was setting, and the land was once more theirs. Air filled lungs, a chest rose and fell, a heart began to beat.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed

And from th' Antarctic Pole eastward behold As much more land, which never was descried, Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright As all the lamps that beautify the sky; And shall I die, and this unconquerèd?

hey O! And a ringing and a dinging Rang from old iron! Wily old iron. With a beat and a bang on the bones of the land, I conquered wily old iron!