Quotes about land
land intellectual why-we-are-here
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair. Terry Tempest Williams
land birth humans
Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human. Sharad Pawar
land history waste
A waste land lit by holy candles. Sean O'Casey
land antiques buying
Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available. Li Ka-shing
land europe brazil
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land. Lawrence Durrell
land etc development
Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc? Kushal Pal Singh
land giving reactions
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.
land history african-american
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life. Marcus Garvey
land battle strange
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius
land purpose driving
The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer. Marc Ostrofsky
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
land laughing cruelty
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Robert Jordan
land wings caterpillars
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound. Robert Kagan
land rights government
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using. Robert Solow
land traveller foreign-lands
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson
land people southern
In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return. Robert Fisk
land rivers orange
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees. Walt Disney
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 decision use
You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions. Tim Kaine
land native-language ideas
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other. S. I. Hayakawa
land pieces care
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away? Ron Paul
land watches skis
Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land. Roland Joffe
land earth surface
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land. Susan George
land air sea
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! Thomas Carlyle
land want rooms
The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too. Steve McQueen
land perception age
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939. Spider Robinson
land beast burden
I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. Shaun White
land legs break
You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
land pressure bigger
When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.