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• Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Truth, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Health, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.26, Editora Dracaena

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• For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.

  Julia Hill

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

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• If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  East, Conquer, Defeated

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Land, Effort

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• In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

  Kevin Smith

  Weed, Spare Time, Spares

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 30, 2012.

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• In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Utah, Oil, Corporations

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

  John Moody

  Land, Today, United States

  John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace

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• Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months.

  Jack Herer

  Numbers, Earth, Four

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• "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

  Voltaire

  Children, Evil, Boredom

  Voltaire (2017). “Candide (Français Anglais édition illustré): Candide (French English Edition illustrated)”, p.229, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

  William Petty

  Soul, Thousand, Effects

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.219

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• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  Jack London

  Book, Writing, Add

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.10, Jack London

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• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  William Petty

  Years, Soil, Bears

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• My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

  Max Miller

  Daughter, Father, Wife

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• I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Home, Animal, Land

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their homes as possible, and if they are willing to learn to judge the quality of food and food production, then they are going to give economic support to an entirely different kind of land use in an entirely different landscape. This landscape will have a higher ratio of caretakers to acres, of care to use. It will be at once more domestic and more wild than the industrial landscape.

  Wendell Berry

  Home, Land Use, Hands

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Country, Dog

  Herman Melville (1974). “Moby Dick; or, The Whale”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Support, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Want, Able

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Land, Discipline, People

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

  Carl Andre

  Fire, Soho, Sweatshops

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Eight, Average

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Religious, Grandmother

  Source: www.aarp.org

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