Quotes About Land

There's relief in not having to be outside. No gardening, no mowing the lawn, no tyranny of long daylight hours to fill with productive activity. We rip through summer, burning the hours and tearing up the land. Then snow comes like a bandage, and winter heals the wounds.

Workampers run the rides at amusement parks from Dollywood in Tennessee to Adventureland in Iowa, Darien Lake in New York, and Story Land in New Hampshire. ("Workampers not only get to meet and work with new people from around the world, but also get to experience the pure joy of children's dreams coming true every day!" promises a Story Land recruitment

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

So we've pulled the chute, and we're drifting, riding the sky. It's just you and me. You can hear me now that we're falling like this, remember? I tell you that I don't want this to end. I don't want to land and reach the real world, because I like our world up here better.

In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown "Loop," named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines.

But what matters most is the aspiration to live in balance with nature, walk lightly on the land, treat the earth as a mother. No surprise that to such a morality most industrial processes, work schedules, and products are suspect!

But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.

Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land.

It has been estimated that a hunter-gatherer needs about ten square miles of game and berry-filled land to live on, whereas agriculture can produce enough calories in a tenth of that space to keep fifty people alive.

My hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics, or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which they practise in every land into which they have broken, and by which alone their criminal regime can be maintained.

the land belonged to all of the generations of the family, including those yet unborn, and there was a duty to them.

One sees all sorts of things when one travels. Two peasants kill each other over a field which, the following day, will be trampled flat by two counts and their retinues trying to kill each other off.

You may turn around." "Lady of the Lake—" "And introduce yourself." "I am Galahad, of Caer Benic. A knight of King Arthur, the lord of Camelot, the ruler of the Summer Land, and also of Dumnonia, Dyfneint, Powys, Dyfedd…

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

promise HaShem gave Abraham: "I give this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River.

Aussie (also Ozzie) n. & adj. informal term for AUSTRALIA or AUSTRALIAN.

For this was a land of prudently harvested plenty, a land which had conquered human accidents, leaving only the weather distressingly beyond control.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

My dad started to watch westerns at dollar cinemas in Seoul and felt like America was a miraculous place. His family had lost a lot of land during the Korean War and the Japanese occupation. That affected him a lot as a kid. He always felt like he needed to come to the U.S. and get land.

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Every farmer in Punjab grows paddy and wheat besides cotton in the south western districts.