Quotes about land
land america campaigns
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. Mary Chapin Carpenter
land people essentials
In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive. Pope Benedict XVI
land earth honestly
No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth. Philipp Meyer
land people growth
The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic. Pete Wilson
land water community
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. Rachel Carson
land wish pieces
If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you. Pol Pot
land four messengers
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work. Pliny the Elder
land safety grace
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace. Philip Yancey
land together needs
As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation
land water darkness
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. Victor Hugo
landscape destroying
Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit. Rick Owens
land lazy aristocracy
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment. Thomas Paine
land community
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
land wind waiting
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom. Thomas Davis
land numbers sowing
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. Robert Grosseteste
land political tyranny
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. Robert Griffin III
land class america
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman
land dear
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
land water self-reliance
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
land laundry visceral
But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living. Sandra Lerner
land america profit
America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.
land awards achievement
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. Robert Plant
land breathing space
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. Richard M. Nixon
land should mining
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed...
land air water
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?
land singing attention
And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. Reba McEntire
land lessons reason
Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson. Tori Amos
land wings ears
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
land people matter
All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter. Veronica Roth
land support arrogance
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver. Robert Green Ingersoll
land people may
As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal. Sandra Cisneros
land rivers sea
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. Saddam Hussein
land roots america
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here. Ronald Reagan