Quotes About Land

In much of the Southern Hemisphere, neo liberalism is frequently spoken of as the second colonial pillage: in the first pillage, the riches were seized from the land, and in the second they were stripped from the state.

environmental movement sought to distance themselves from Leopold's "radical" suggestion that nature had an inherent value beyond its utility to man. If watersheds and old-growth forests had a "right to continued existence," as Leopold argued (a preview of the "rights of nature" debates that would emerge several decades later), then an owner's right to do what he wished with his land could be called into question.

If this situation is going to change, then the call to Honour the Treaties needs to go a whole lot further than raising money for legal battles. Non-Natives will have to become the treaty and land-sharing partners that our ancestors failed to be, making good on the full panoply of promises they made, from providing health care and education to creating economic opportunities that do not jeopardize the right to engage in traditional ways of life.

It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything seems to be spoken for," Temeraire said

Are people the only holy land?

I know of no task so salutory to the poet who would, first of all, put himself in touch with the resident genius of his own land.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air. –

Maybe the two sections of land should have been called Bad Luck Ranch instead of the Lucky Penny…

Man does not make these natural resources--man only develops them, only uses them for work....How can a man own ground and space and sunlight and rain for crops?

The prophetic vision of the Temple was revealed to Ezekiel on Yom Kippur in the year 3352 (408 B.C.E.), a Jubilee Year.6 On Yom Kippur in the Jubilee Year, Jewish slaves are freed and land in Israel that had been sold during the previous forty-nine years, is returned to its original tribal ownership.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?