Quotes About Land

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;No occupation; all men idle, all;And women too, but innocent and pure.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Like a fair house built upon another man's ground.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves.

Climbing Along the River Willows never forget how it feels to be young Do you remember where you came from? Gravel remembers. Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. Exactly at midnight yesterday sighs away. What I believe is, all animals have one soul. Over the land they love they crisscross forever.

The light that never was, on sea or land,The consecration, and the poet's dream.

Before me begging did she stand,     Pouring out sorrows like a sea;     Grief after grief:—on English Land     Such woes I knew could never be;     And yet a boon I gave her; for the Creature   Was beautiful to see; a Weed of glorious feature!

A man does not sell the earth the people walk on." That

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

In typology, this means that after all of the experiences of affliction, the church life will be expanded and become spacious. Then we shall have a richer seed and a wider, broader church life. The seed within us will be richer, and the land without us will be broader.

some are willing to help others enter into the land of Canaan to reach God's glorious goal, but they have no desire to enter into God's glorious goal to inherit the land themselves.

the land east of the Jordan was not good enough because it was outside of the realm of Christ's death.

The purpose of God's calling...is not to give His people a little enjoyment of the animal life and the vegetable life in Egypt; it is to bring them into a spacious land flowing with milk and honey.

Josiah Parkes, inventor of a tile system for draining soils.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

Well, it's always we ramble, that river and I,All along your green valley I'll work till I die,My land I'll defend with my life, if it be,'Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free.

This land is your land, this land is my land,From California to the New York island,From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters,This land was made for you and me.

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

This land does not belong to you. It belongs to that ancient shepherd whose ghost is standing next to you, though you refuse to see it. Since you do not know how to share, take your vineyards and your bridges, your paved roads and your railway tracks, your cities and your gardens and give back what remains to its rightful owners".

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.