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Quotes About Land

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.
~ Edward O. Wilson
The Past is a strange land, most strange. Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall: If they do, they cannot hurt at all.
~ Edward Thomas
It is those who have compassion for all life who will best safeguard the life of man. Those who become aroused only when man is endangered become aroused too late. We cannot make the world uninhabitable for other forms of life and have it habitable for ourselves. It is the conservationist who is concerned with the welfare of all the land and life of the country, who, in the end, will do most to maintain the world as a fit place for human existence.
~ Edwin Way Teale
A thought has no specific language; however, it can fly and land, upon whichever mind and language.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Civilization is not a planet or land and its resources. It is just your brain how works that, constructive or destructive.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
My country is not just my Soil, but it is also my Soul that breathes in my body. I am the strongest and devoted advocate of my land and people wherever I am. It does not matter how bitterly I criticize them, even though they are my real love and respect.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The whole future–I thought–will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning. But it won't be worse that the past.
~ Elena Ferrante
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth. There is no other source, except land, the raw material….Every bit of capital that exists was made by labor, just as everything that is consumed is.
~ Eli Siegel
What even differentiated a great and honorable war, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people, from a shameful genocide, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people?)
~ Elif Batuman
the white stain of chalk mixed with the clay topsoil zigzagging across the freshly-turned earth, the tell-tale marks of the German trenches from which ***** had been enfiladed. Fifty ploughings and fifty harvests had failed to erase those marks, so maybe they were etched into the land for all time, just like the spadework of the ancient peoples which the archaeologists studied with such fervour.
~ Anthony Price
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
All Russia is our orchard.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
La tierra de Alvargonzález se colmará de riqueza, y el que la tierra ha labrado no duerme bajo la tierra».
~ Antonio Machado
National growth policy is decided on an international land and surprisingly none finds anything wrong in it.
~ Anuj Somany
The pollution is more in the majority of population's mind than that taken together on air, water and land.
~ Anuj Somany
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.
~ Anwar al-Sadat
Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.
~ Ari Berk
The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
~ Ariel Sharon
The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
~ John Hanning Speke
Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.
~ Gladys Taber
I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'
~ Matt Ridley