Quotes about land
land rocks diversity
We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us". Malcolm X
land america rocks
We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.
land justice independence
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality....
land india duty
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment). Mahatma Gandhi
land balance liberty
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates. John Adams
land balance accompany
The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.
land presentation
Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work. Harvey Mackay
land becoming feels
I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land. Louise Erdrich
land passed plain unto
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
land atheism hurtful
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment. James Madison
land government house
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself
land environmental beef
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. James Lovelock
land people ireland
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland James Larkin
landscape nostalgia homesick
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. Joan Didion
land mountain wish
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine? Jimi Hendrix
land vision world
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. Emma Goldman
land people working-it
The land belongs to the people who work it, Emiliano Zapata
land hands working-it
The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.
land iraq airports
The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq. John McCain
land california gold
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. John Jakes
landed swing took
The first one was kind of lucky. I took a swing on it, and it landed in the net. Henrik Zetterberg
land seriousness
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness. Rainer Maria Rilke
landscape narrative coming-back
Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well. Shane Carruth
land historical battle
I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land. Michael W. Smith
land soybeans corn
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. Michael Pollan
land development way
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
land people social
Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.
land incentives needs
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.
land body soil
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.
land yield doubt
All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.
land giving proud
If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
land yellowstone house
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. John Garamendi
land railroads acres
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.