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Quotes About Land

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
~ Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
~ Aldo Leopold
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.
~ Luna Leopold
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
~ Yoko Ono
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
~ Aldo Leopold
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
~ Linda Hogan
Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever
~ Satish Kumar
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
~ Catherine Opie
In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high
~ Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
~ Wendell Berry
There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.
~ Toby Keith
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
~ William Vickrey
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.
~ Andy Warhol
When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are the land, then I am the sea. I don't need you and you don't need me.
~ Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
~ Jules Renard
One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting caring and love is also expecting our earth from us. Do it, It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind.
~ Karthikeyan V
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...
~ Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett
You're talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I'm talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever.
~ Jasper Fforde
Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.
~ Fyodor Tyutchev
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
~ Clarence Darrow