Land Quotes - Page 4

• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

  Bob Menendez

  Law, Due Diligence, Vote

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• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  Wendell Johnson

  Waiting, Forgotten, Moses

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• If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Cogs, Tinkering, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Democracy, Relief, Development

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• The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

  David Douglas

  Long, Joy, Employment

  David Douglas, John Davies (1979). “Douglas of the Forests: The North American Journals of David Douglas”, Edinburgh : P. Harris Pub.

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• But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

  Hesiod

  Cities, People, Giving

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• America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

  Virginia Foxx

  Fighting, America, Doe

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• Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

  Alfred Marshall

  Names, Producers, Surplus

  Alfred Marshall, Peter Groenewegen (1997). “Collected works”

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• Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

  David Ricardo

  Agriculture, Together, Usual

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1871). “The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.371

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• There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

  Harriet Martineau

  Mind, Pieces, Estates

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.411, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Eye, Men, Fit

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 12, 2010.

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• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Travel, People

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• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

  Matthew Henson

  Ice, Wind, Snow

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• The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

  Robert Frost

  Years, People, Hundred

  "The Gift Outright" l. 1 (1942).

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• I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

  Aldo Leopold

  Thinking, Community, Mind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

  Aldo Leopold

  Philosophy, Journey, Ends

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.1213, Library of America

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• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Equality, Iraq, America

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• America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dirty, America, Evil

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.153, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

  Spotted Tail

  Children, Father, Spring

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• I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

  Loretta Lynn

  Travel, Holy, Funny Travel

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• And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

  Roy Bean

  Winter, Wind, Snow

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• If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cat

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• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Literature, Marvellous

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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