Quotes About Land

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.

Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.

The fact is, we are still very much in an ice age; it's just a somewhat shrunken one—though less shrunken than many people realize. At the height of the last period of glaciation, around twenty thousand years ago, about 30 percent of the Earth's land surface was under ice.

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

There is a lot of salt in the sea- enough to bury every bit of land on the planet to a depth of about five hundred feet. p280

When simple plants colonized the land and the first creatures crawled gasping from the sea, the Appalachians were there to greet them.

Of the total surface area of Earth, Britain occupies just 0.0174069 per cent.

Power density is the relevant number here. It tells you how much power you can get from different sources for a given amount of land (or water, if you're putting wind turbines in the ocean). It's measured in watts per square meter. Below

In Africa, for example, it's a matter of clearing land to grow food and fuel for the continent's growing population. Nigeria, which has had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, has lost more than 60 percent of its forest cover since 1990, and it's one of the world's biggest exporters of charcoal, which is created by charring wood.

a long time ago when cataclysms were common as sneezes and land masses slid around the globe looking for places to settle down and become continents, someone introduced us at a party.

It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.

There are some who see clearly that man has no other enemy but concupiscence, which turns him away from God, and not [human] enemies, no other good but God, and not a rich land.

It's all these different capitalists, in far-flung parts of the world—and that's all the more so today: in far-flung parts of the world—it's all these capitalists in competition with each other, forcing each other to find ways to more efficiently produce, and more effectively exploit people, even if that means throwing a bunch of people out of work, or off the land, or whatever.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

And then, amidst the joy that grips everyone, I meet your mysteriously mirthless gaze, wandering no one knows where, in some far-off kingdom, in some far-off land. What wouldn't I give for it not to be there, for it to be written on your face that you are pleased with your fate and need nothing from anyone

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not - and to know not is to not care for.

she can share it with all who come to her for comfort, hope, and the joy of this land I live in, this Home that waits for everyone, this busy, perfect paradise called The Other Side.