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Quotes About Lands

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.
~ Greg Gianforte
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
~ William H. Wharton
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
~ Jeff Goodell
What progress requires inexorably of human beings and of continents is that they should renounce their strangeness, that they should break with mystery; and somewhere along that road is inscribed inexorably the end of the last elephant. The cultivated lands must encroach upon the forests, and the roads will bite more and more deeply into the quietude of the great herds. There will be less and less room for natural splendor. A pity.
~ Romain Gary
Não houve lepra, mas há febres por todas essas terras humanas, sejam velhas ou novas.
~ Machado de Assis
Arab independence was only guaranteed in those lands that the Arabs freed themselves.
~ Scott Anderson
The Catholic life—the great Christian tradition—is a tremendous inheritance from two millennia of saints in many lands and circumstances.
~ Scott Hahn
As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages.
~ Scott Hahn
When the clarion call is sounded, I will ride out and fight in the name of liege and Lady, Whilst I draw breath the lands bequeathed unto me will remain untainted by evil. Honour is all. Chivalry is all...
~ Anthony Reynolds
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
~ Ariel Sharon
Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
~ John Burroughs
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
~ David Ricardo
At the same time as we were seizing the lands that we turned into Iraq, we were devising an interesting future for our new protectorate in Palestine, and simultaneously trying to pacify Ireland, where we hit upon the solution of partition in 1921, thereby securing a peaceful resolution to the conflict only 86 years later.
~ Jeremy Hardy
Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.
~ Ron Dellums
This shows how much numbers of men are to be preferred to largeness of dominions ; and that the increase of lands, and the right of employing of them, is the great art of government: and that prince, who shall be so wise and godlike, as by established laws of liberty to secure protection and encouragement to the honest industry of mankind, against the oppression of power and narrowness of party, will quickly be too hard for his neighbours: but this by the by. To return to the argument in hand.
~ John Locke
the Ukraine. Its rich grain-producing lands would be essential for the Bolsheviks to feed Russia's hungry masses, and its industries produced 75 percent of Russia's iron and 60 percent of its steel.
~ Arthur Herman
There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
our sun is long and straight, a line of burning gold fencing our lands from the skylands.
~ Gene Wolfe
He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves.
~ Gene Wolfe
Climate change poses a far greater threat to the outdoor industry than even the privatization of the public lands.
~ Gretchen Bleiler
My name is Chief Animae Cibus, I come from the Anasazi, a name meaning, alien ancestors and basket weavers. We walked this earth and these lands for a very long time. I have not come to harm you, I have come to admonish you." Instinctively
~ John V. Panella
Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale.
~ Balzac, Honoré de
Which desirest thou the most? Is it the gratification of thy desires of each day, a jewel, a bit of finery, better raiment, more food; things quickly gone and forgotten? Or is it substantial belongings, gold, lands, herds,merchandise, income-bringing investments? The coins thou takest from thy purse bring the first. The coins thou leavest within it will bring the latter.
~ George S. Clason