Quotes About Land

To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the body.

ACRE  (A'CRE)   n.s.[Æcre, Sax.] A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, and four in breadth, or four thousand eight hundred and forty square yards.Dict.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

ALLODIUM  (ALLO'DIUM)   n.s.[A word of very uncertain derivation, but most probably of German original.]A possession held in absolute independence, without any acknowledgment of a lord paramount. It is opposed to fee, or feudum, which intimates some kind of dependance. There are no allodial lands in England, all being held either mediately or immediately of the king.

at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.

Culture begins with cultivating the land, planting seeds, bringing intentionality to cycles that we act to perpetuate.

With her final poem, "Bless This Land," she declared: "Luminous forests, oceans, and rock cliff sold for the trash glut of gold, uranium, or oil bust rush yet there are new stories to be made, little ones coming up over the horizon." Harjo did this revolutionary thing under the great greened dome of the Library of Congress

Now settlers go into "liberated territories" like colonialists, with army support, and take land from the "natives.

Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.

Anyone looking for the holy land might best begin with the earth that sustains us.

We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man?

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break.

The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.

Once in a sycamore I was glad all at the top, and I sang. Hard on the land wears the strong sea and empty grows every bed.

This is a beautiful country.

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began.

I was a stranger in a familiar land.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

Virtue, I fear, has, in a great degree, taken its departure from our Land, and the want of disposition to do justice is the source of the national embarrassments," he concluded.5