Quotes About Land

How does the industry seek to master the risks? Through mathematics. The common-sense version of what sophisticated investors do is diversification, a technique so old it's mentioned in the Talmud, where the strategy advocated is to have a third of your assets in trade, a third in cash and a third in land.

but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...

God gave the World to Men in Common; But since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest Conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.

the law of the land, which is not to be violated.

Nay, the extent of ground is of so little value, without labour, that I have heard it affirmed, that in Spain itself a man may be permitted to plough, sow, and reap, without being disturbed, upon land he has no other title to, but only his making use of it.

It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.

have here rated the improved land very low, in making its product but as ten to one, when it is much nearer an hundred to one : for I ask, whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement, tillage, or husbandry, a thousand acres yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniencies of life as ten acres equally fertile land do in Devonshire, where they are well cultivated?

and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

Was it worth it, Peredur?" Richard said. "So I am now undisputed King. Do I have a son, or brothers? Is the land renewed? Shall I decree happiness, on pain of death?

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

We have to hope. When I'm dying and ready to go, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to hope with all my heart. And then I'm going to let go. Hope I don't disappear. Hope I land somewhere safely.

Human activity has transformed between a third and a half of the land surface of the planet. • Most of the world's major rivers have been dammed or diverted. • Fertilizer plants produce more nitrogen than is fixed naturally by all terrestrial ecosystems. • Fisheries remove more than a third of the primary production of the oceans' coastal waters. • Humans use more than half of the world's readily accessible fresh water runoff.

No plough iron ever cut this-here hill afore, not in the whole time of man,' Henry said.

Él tenía la certeza de que iba a salir con bien de aquélla; y a su regreso ya no tendría que arar la tierra ingrata en la que había nacido, seca y maldita de Dios, tierra de caínes esquilmada por reyes, curas, señores, funcionarios, recaudadores de impuestos y alguaciles; por sanguijuelas que vivían del sudor ajeno.

MIRANDA: Tengo hijos sin tierra. Tengo tierra sin hijos. Quiero la tierra y los hijos reunidos. Quiero los colores reunidos. Eso es Colombeia. TODOS: ¿Qué es Colombeia? MIRANDA: Esto es Colombeia. Para todos luz. Para todos ley. Para todos fe. Para todos paz. Para todos pan. Callad ahora. Es la noche de irme. Es la noche de salir.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

I graduated from college in 2014 and started freelance writing. I'd write anything that paid, including filling local events calendars for hourly rates.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.