Quotes About Land

Abruptly Loerya joined the probing. "And if there is no Creator? Or if the creation is untended?" "Then who is there to reproach us? We provide the meaning of our own lives. If we serve the Land purely to the furthest limit of our abilities, what more can we ask of ourselves?

Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, "reserv[ing] and set[ting] apart for the settlement of the negroes . . . the islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida," to be subdivided "so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground.

In addition to beating back hunger, the ability to grow more food from less land has been, on the whole, good for the planet.

Ecomodernists point out that organic farming, which needs far more land to produce a kilogram of food, is neither green nor sustainable.)

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Surgiram-lhe um começo de calvície, idéias conservadoras, hábitos monarcos e a ambição de terras e bovinos: como se vê, homem completamente recuperado para a sociedade, a família e o latifúndio.

To me literature is forever blowing a horn, singing about youth when youth is irretrievably gone, singing about your homeland when in the schitzophrenia of the times you find yourself in a land that lies over the ocean, a land - no matter how hospitable or friendly - where your heart is not, because you landed on these shores too late.

I am Squanto. I am known to all those who gather here: English, Pokanoket, Nemasket, even a few of my own surviving Patuxets. I speak to you as a pniese , a man of honor. I will never leave this land. I give thanks for all of our people to the Creator of All Things.

So it was that five days later, on the 22nd of March, I walked with Samoset back into my own village. Once Patuxet, now it was Plymouth. I looked around me. Though much was changed, I knew that I at last had returned to the land of my home.

Hail, Columbia! happy land!Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Leaf was staring down into shadow, and Thunder followed his gaze. The land dropped away into a small ravine. Moonlight pooled at the bottom, lighting a clearing ringed by bracken and trees.

Los blancos hicieron que estas tierras fueran extranjeras para el indio; hicieron que el indio comprara con su sangre el aire que respira.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

He interprets the desires of the great peasant mass to be owners of land, owners of their means of production, of their animals, of all that which they have long yearned to call their own, of that which constitutes their life and will also serve as their cemetery.

These men did not give the impression that they considered the solitude to be a necessary evil of their land. They intimate with it and loved it.

There is only one kind of land reform today: expropriation.

Kein Volk ist wahrhaft frei ohne die Freiheit seiner Nachbarn. Die Politiker belügen sich selbst und belügen die Bürger, sie nennen ihre Interessen Ideale, für diese Ideale, für Gold, für Land, für Erz, für Öl, für lauter tote Dinge sterben, hungern, verzweifeln die Menschen. Überall. Die Frage der Kriegsschuld verblaßt vor der Schuld des Kapitalismus.