Quotes About Land

Do you know what emperors do, Tilla?' That was easy. 'Send soldiers to steal the land and make us pay taxes.' 'They spend half their waking hours listening to people who want things. As, it seems, do gods. Maybe it wasn't as much of a transition as everyone thought.

The land is sacred. The land gives people life, and that which gives life is sacred.

He chose to come onto your land uninvited with a weapon in his hand,? he said. ?When a man does that, he consents to his fate and makes you clean of his blood.?

If you have to farm, the Willamette is about the best place in the world to do it.

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.

The land was then naturally broken up into small portions, which the proprietor cultivated for himself.

In order to enjoy the priceless advantages guaranteed by press freedom, one must submit to the unavoidable evils it produces. The wish to achieve the former while escaping the latter means submission to one of those illusions which normally sick nations use to sooth themselves when, tired of struggling and exhausted by their efforts, they seek the means of combining hostile opinions and opposing principles at the same time, in the same land.

They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.

And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried – and lived and died – to see again

There we are informed that He is the father of Jesus, who we invariably see depicted as a white man. He thinks we are born of sin and embody it; he thinks man should have dominion over the earth, which includes land and water, women, animals and children.

Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand.