Land Quotes - Page 14

• It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

  William Graham Sumner

  Jealousy, Doctrine, Individual

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.45, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand

  Rick Riordan

  Rain, Hands, Parent

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.166, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mean, People, Tree

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• The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Laughter, Past, Simple

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.343, Penguin

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• Life is a journey through a foreign land.

  O.R. Melling

  Journey, Life Is, Life Is A Journey

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Income, Statistics

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.144, Counterpoint

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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.

  Bill Bryson

  Wall, America, Woods

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• They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains... And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.

  M.M. Kaye

  Glowing, Tree, Leaving

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• Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

  David Almond

  Writing, Journey, Take Me

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• ‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

  Bernard Cornwell

  Giving Up, Blood, Sea

  Bernard Cornwell (2009). “The Last Kingdom (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 1)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Rivers, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!

  Enid Blyton

  Believe, Funny Friend, Tree

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Space, Water, Way

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Long, Half, Way

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

  Jodi Picoult

  Prayer, Giving, Water

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Garden, Thinking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.109, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Rivers, Water, Needs

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.189, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."

  Scott Westerfeld

  Country, Rain, Cutting

  "Uglies". Book by Scott Westerfeld, 2005.

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• Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

  E. B. White

  Sky, Car, Rose

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• How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Air, Knowing, Waiting

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• And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrite, People, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Air, Feelings

  Cecelia Ahern (2006). “If You Could See Me Now”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Names, Perfect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Fall, Knaves

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