Quotes About Land

You are a victim of your own mindless greed. This land will radiate glory, but you will never look upon it.

If Caradore was like a prancing horse, frozen on the cliffs, the flags of its mane still fluttering, Norgance was like a lazy grey lizard lying close to the land, its limbs, relaxed and sprawling.

The women of Caradore had secrets and she was flitting around the hidden flame of it, curious and in danger of being scorched. The land pulsed with mysteries she wanted to penetrate.

The destiny of the land was sealed, but as yet there was no way of knowing what direction that would take.

Shan knew he had been walking in the forest of winter for a long time, but from that moment the days would grown longer and light would return to the land of his soul.

In the land of the dead there were distant sounds: scurryings; faint, maddened laughter, quickly stemmed; a sad soft moan.

No one knows this land as well as I. Its secrets are my secrets. I can bend its elements to my will. You don't have to go to the serpent alone.

Let the angels keep their stark, beautiful purity; he would go to the land of his fathers.

If this was indeed the ancient land of Eden, then not even a memory of its former splendour remained.

The power is in the land and in our blood, but we have lost that special connection with the sea. It has been severed.

It was like a fairytale. She couldn't imagine these creatures of myth physically present in the land.

I'm changing, Daniel. I was drawn back to the city in spirit, and led the woman into the ancient land. She is a follower of mine. And yet an assassin.

Despite its concessions to modernity, the land still retained the grandeur of the past and a lot of its magic.

This land is very old. It's alive. It listens.

Once we had crossed the line that separated this unpredictable land from the normal world, I began to understand its symbolic nature. There was a weird beauty in the tumbled shapes beside the old road, and a kind of dignity.

as Marcos reminds us, "When Mexican government officials say land, they precede the word with an 'I buy' or 'I sell,' since for the powerful land is just a commodity. When the Indigenous say land, no word recedes it, but with it they also mean nation, mother, home, school, history, wisdom.

I went searching in a foreign land and found my way home.

I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We've become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. We've had to be. When you ain't got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I'm not safe from anything if I don't write?

Most white Minnesotans have forgotten that they were strangers here once. Or that they are not native to this land.

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.