The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family… — Helen Nearing Copy Share Image
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years... — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in… — Tim Bowler Copy Share Image
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
