Quotes About Land

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

We have a lot of options. America is a great country.

We want to be with ourselves in a land of our own under the guidance of God.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.