Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our clients are everyday folks. We don't represent big corporations; we represent the husband and wife who have 80 acres of land they want to divide and they can't under Oregon's land-use laws.

That 38 acres of agricultural land will be gone forever. That's undebatable.

I watched it grow in the 1980s and 1990s, and 500 to 1,000 acres of water were being built every year.

Standard residential land has been going for over $150,000 per acre for a while.

Someone has said $1 million, but no one knows. But five to six acres of oysters is a lot of oysters. It all depends on how many people will be fishing out there, too, and what the prices are.

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.

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.

When the depression hit, he bought land for 50 cents an acre and cows for $1 each from his neighbors who couldn't make it.

We've owned a lot of land down there for many years. We had 12,000 acres. Now, we're adding 6,000 acres together.

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.

Delta Burke

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

The other good thing about this is that (the project) is not on that 5- or 10-acre spacing like the Jonah Field ... We're talking 160 or 320 acres spacing, which is a lot more spread out.

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

We have about two million acres here that are potential agriculture and they're going out of business. This is gonna revive those.

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

There's room for another half a million acre feet of water, a lot of water.

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

At $1 million an acre (the going price for land), you are not going to buy a whole lot for that around here.

Mark Wilson

Currently, the financial returns aren't that great, but at that rate a farmer with 1,000 acres of no-till could earn $1,000 annually for merely continuing his established practices.

And they don't need Florida's votes in the next election either. I cannot underestimate the importance of that. They want to lease millions of acres off Florida's coast.

David Lopez

We are very pleased and proud to be in this community. Our concern is that Squatty is too small (about 4,700 square-feet). We need about 10 acres to build the 50,000-square-foot facility and parking area that we are budgeted for. This is a tremendous opportunity.

We are very park-poor in the township. These are very important and welcome acres of green space even though this is more development.

We're very hopeful this is the bear. It's basically the same size bear. There's truly not that many bears in the 5,000 acres we have closed off.

Very shortly we anticipate a big announcement...residential, commercial, office space that will encompass several hundred acres east of I-90. We're very excited about it.

We went for a late night walk around the grounds and lake; it was so tranquil and silent, ... The inn itself is a privilege to stay in. Each room is uniquely decorated and named after a person of great inspiration to George. There is a great stone fireplace were you can sit up late and drink and talk. But my favorite part of the whole Ranch has to be the atmosphere. Everyone you meet is happy to be there, and the views are amazing. The Ranch is possibly one of the most serene, beautiful places I've ever been to. Thousands of acres of rolling grass hills, forest, lakes and wildlife. Then you have these amazing state-of-the-art buildings. Big Rock Ranch is also a stunning building like an enormous Japanese ski lodge. What a place to work; the toy-licensing department is where I can see my self one day!

There's no net gain in farmland. No matter how you do the math, we will still lose farmland. We're still losing 700 acres of farm ground.

There's no hard and fast rule, but a basic rule of thumb is that it takes a thousand acres to justify owning a combine.