Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Oates

I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

Robert Anderson

I did make a comment that I didn't think more than 20 (residential units) per acre was appropriate for that site. At the same time, I'm only one board member.

Connie Stevens

I am fortunate enough to have two and a quarter acres and a great housekeeper and houseman. Also, my home is large.

Charles Darwin

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

Joel Salatin

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

Doc Severinsen

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

It all starts with the price of the land. Show me another market that is selling land for $700,000 an acre that's not looking at the ocean. We don't have enough, and it's priced too high.

It can range from a few cents per acre up to $5.60 per acre of land that has these conservation practices on it.

It can grow two, three, four times what it is presently. This fire is not over. It is out of control. If it's 300,000 acres now, it's only going to get bigger.

Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because of the heavier timber fuels and the likelihood that homes will be threatened by any fire that grows this large. A 4,000-acre fire is a huge fire in this region.

Going from an agricultural zoning of a minimum 10 acres to one acre lots is a huge change. It's more in the best interest of the developer; it's not in the best interest of the community.

It is a 200-acre-plus site, and the casino might be two to three acres of that.

It is a good business to be in. But it's not as profitable per acre as it was in 1980s and 1990s.

Land costs are getting high, but are still cheap compared to California, or even Sun Valley, where an acre of land can cost $1 million. But it's still pushing housing prices up.

Jackie Collins

What do you have in at least an acre or more, because I'm tired of living cramped next to my neighbor.

There is a strong relationship between the money we need to meet our goals and the value of our water rights at $10,000 per acre foot.

Robert Wyatt

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal. We have an option on an 80-acre (32.4-hectare) piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres (14 hectares). We would keep a lot of trees in the front.

History has shown that the Legislature has never done that. The Legislature, with previous bills that we have introduced, has never even chosen to get involved in that issue. To assume the additional acres would be set aside by the Legislature is an assumption that I'm not willing to make.

We may have our family feuds, but at least this is our 6.6 acres of God's green earth. Let us decide, not someone else.

It is possible that the grove acreage (in Florida) could be down to about 548,000 acres at the end of 2009.

He had about 100 acres of the land listed for sale, but nobody wanted it because Fishers was too far out in the country.

If it was a five-acre parcel, I think I would be very hesitant to try to build mid-range housing product in that location, but the fact that it's 50 acres means you can really create an environment that changes the character of the entire area. I think that's really the key to making this successful, because otherwise you're in kind of a sea of lower-income rental housing.

I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near Elizabeth. I just wish they had full slices of bread here so I could have a few tomato sandwiches and really enjoy the day.

If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.

If we commented on every single one of them, you'd think we were building everywhere. That (Green Acres proposal) may very well be going on, but we don't comment until arrangements are final.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

Shane Smith

We're talking about six acres with mature trees. You just can't buy trees like that. The city is basically getting a multimillion-dollar chunk of land returned to it.

We're talking about a smaller city, but a safer and hopefully more sustainable one, ... The alternative is to continue as we are, losing 60 acres (of wetlands) a day. By 2090, New Orleans would be exposed to the open sea, with no protection at all.

Bill Gross

We've been completing about 300 to 400 acres a day, which is actually a lot.

Both performed well, in terms of angler trips per acre and angler trips per trout.

When you get more acres in a day, it's a bad day when you're harvesting, ... You want to be dumping as much as you can.

There are 45 parks in Wyandotte County, ranging from 1,500 acres to the tiny St. John's Park on Third Street and Armstrong.