Quotes About Acres

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

However much these acres looked like a gift of nature, or of God, they were not. We went to church to pay our respects, not to give thanks.

because Harvard is such a fine sound forty acres is no high price for a fine sound. A fine dead sound we will swap Benjy's pasture for a fine dead sound. It will last him a long time because he cannot hear it unless he can smell it

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

the twenty-five hundred acres that comprised Cromwell Plantation. She loved the land passionately. Carrie knew all its moods—all of its secrets and hidden places.

driving through West Virginia, I heard a woman announce that she was looking to sell a house, 16 acres, a bowling ball, and a sequin dress slit up the side.

Árbenz ordered the expropriation of 380,000 acres (154,000ha) of United Fruit land – a substantial chunk of its holdings, of which 85 per cent was left fallow, supposedly in case of banana diseases

Clos des Mésanges was a luxurious house; it had seven bedrooms and a caretaker's lodge and was set on several acres of land in the village of Blonay, just above Lake Geneva.