Quotes about land
landscape number paintings shows
A number of his paintings are made with charcoal. Kiefer shows not just destructive forces, but rejuvenation. The landscape is ravaged, but it will one day become very fertile.
landed million nine rejected written
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
landfill managing material sent
Right now we have been managing them because they come to the landfill anyway. They are sent out for shredding, and that material is recycled.
landlords properties racial refused ugly
Racial discrimination reared its ugly head. Landlords refused to show their properties to minorities.
land walking water
They're walking it right now to see if the water is down enough to land airplanes on one of those runways in one direction.
land measures since vital
There will be more coming. There will be measures on land supply, since that's very vital to this tightening.
land matter pieces searching
It's just a matter of searching the land to find the pieces remaining.
landscape wait walls
It's exciting. I can't wait to see the landscape, because the walls have been a part of the landscape for years.
land recipes world
My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone. Gladys Taber
land safety infinite
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Herman Melville
land cities two
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative. Herb Caen
land rivers lakes
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. Henry David Thoreau
land sea quality
All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet. Henry David Thoreau
land earth theme
New earths, new themes expect us. Henry David Thoreau
land railroads underground-railroad
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. Henry David Thoreau
land intellectual needs
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent. Esther Dyson
landscape spirit american-landscape
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. Henri Frederic Amiel
land would-be abandon
I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac. Cassandra Clare
land populist presses
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land. Gore Vidal
land problem disagree
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? Hassan Nasrallah
land trying want
That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow. J. R. R. Tolkien
land sea tree
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas. J. R. R. Tolkien
land dragons cabbage
Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer) J. R. R. Tolkien
land shadow path
Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow. J. R. R. Tolkien
land pitfalls dungeons
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold. J. R. R. Tolkien
land people asking
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour. J. R. R. Tolkien
land mars done
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. Elon Musk
land government important
Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent use of land would be unable to raise money for the purchase price. Collecting rent annually provides access to land for persons with limited access to credit. Franco Modigliani
land people cost
We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically. Jeff Bezos
land tyrants thrones
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. Georges Clemenceau
land dry body
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area. Georges Cuvier
land community rural-communities
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. Jim Gibbons
land clouds rainbow
There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard. Jerome K. Jerome