Quotes about land
landscape week i-realized
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find. William Friedkin
land tunnels relax
The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax. Will Cuppy
landscape way taste
Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes. Willard Van Orman Quine
land cities soul
You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind. Saint Basil
land support want
I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. Saint Augustine
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.
land giving insulting
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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.
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.
land waiting estates
Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.
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.
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.
land people connections
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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.