Quotes about land
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 rivers water
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. Willa Cather
land
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Washington Irving
land alive world
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.' William Stafford
land goodness american-history
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. William Least Heat-Moon
land done sun
I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun William Butler Yeats
land flags patriot
I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land. Winona LaDuke
land zinc giving
What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women? Winona LaDuke
land world firsts
To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world. Winona LaDuke
land essence people
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on. Winona LaDuke
land compensation
The only compensation for land is land, Winona LaDuke
land america speech
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form. Winston Churchill
land
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers. William Robertson Smith
land errors humanity
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. William Jennings Bryan
landscape might tongue
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Virginia Woolf
land redwoods trespassing
This land is your land, this land is my land Woody Guthrie
land valleys ribbons
As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me. Woody Guthrie
land made
This land is made for you and me. Woody Guthrie
land advice stuff
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. Will Rogers
land trouble
The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore. Will Rogers
land giving insulting
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else Will Rogers
land people waiting
Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there. Will Rogers
land community support
If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes. Will Rogers
land waiting estates
Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait. Will Rogers
land burma knows
This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about. Rudyard Kipling
land way steps
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again. Yvon Chouinard
land remedy ifs
If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy? Yunus Emre
land government suffering
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
landscape void form
All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like. William Hazlitt
landscape painting misanthropy
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. William Hazlitt
land waiting forgotten
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. Wendell Johnson
land limits use
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. Wendell Berry
land fertility maintenance
The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance. Wendell Berry