We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation;… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size.… — Christopher Masterson Copy Share Image
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and… — George Will Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some… — Mark Fidrych Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his… — Horace Copy Share Image
Sundance started with two acres back in 1963 that I bought from a sheepherder for $500. What has happened, I could see… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at… — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands.… — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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