Quotes About Land

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

Indian saying in Saskatchewan

When Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian angels sung this strain; "Rule Britannia! rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."

The farmer works the soil, The agriculturist works the farmer.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

First of all, Turtle Island is the name of this continent we live on... that's right, not 'America... as in North America,' but the name given by the first peoples of this land.

I was a kid that loved reptiles and eventually started an organization dedicated to saving turtles and tortoises, called the Turtle Conservancy, where we protect land and basically do species conservation around the world.

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

As time went on, Tecumseh saw that other tribes were willing to sign treaties with the whites, "selling" land in exchange for gifts. Again, Tecumseh grew angry. "We do not own the land!" he told his followers. "Land is like air and water. No one owns it. We all use it in common!

William Penn planned to use this land for a colony where Quaker ideas would be followed. He wanted the settlers to be like brothers, all equal to each other. The capital city would be called the City of Brotherly Love--in Greek, Philadelphia.

began to establish their own kingdoms, all over the land that once

God made this country for us," he wrote to Governor Grey. "If it were a whale, we might slice it in half. But it cannot be sliced. We will have to fight for the land that lies between us." Governor

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.