Quotes about land
land people connections
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological. Wendell Berry
land agriculture statistics
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
land body
Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
land emergencies sound
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
land abuse ignorant
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.
land government healthy
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
land people want
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.
land people community
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.
land voice people
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
land flags environment
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
land community care
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
land disease poverty
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
land people feelings
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.
land space water
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.
land people
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
land
The land belongs to the future. Willa Cather
land people pioneers
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
land bourgeoisie slave
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. Vladimir Lenin
land bread soviet
Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
land dwelling problem
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
landscape planets
I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. Werner Herzog
land water dry
Water is the true wealth in a dry land. Wallace Stegner
land self sea
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves. Wallace Stevens
land skins liberty
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me. Salvador Dali
land desert limited-resources
Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts. Wangari Maathai
land intuition tools
Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been. Josiah Royce
land spots produce
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. Joseph Hume
land white office
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? Rahm Emanuel
land long independence
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Ralph Waldo Emerson
land shapes culture
Lanscape shapes culture. Terry Tempest Williams
land priorities survival
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.
landscape culture shapes
Landscape shapes culture
landscape needs speak
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.