--- title: "4 Lands Belong Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Lands Belong quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Lands Belong sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/noviolet-bulawayo-12666_fiction-novel_look-at-them-leaving-in-droves-despite-k_477013.jpg" --- > [“Look at them leaving in droves despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noviolet-bulawayo/look-at-them-leaving-in-droves-despite-knowing-they-will-be-welcomed/) [NoViolet Bulawayo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noviolet-bulawayo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/noviolet-bulawayo-12666_fiction-novel_look-at-them-leaving-in-droves-despite-k_477013.jpg) > [Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gough-whitlam/vincent-lingiari-i-solemnly-hand-to-you-these-deeds-as-proof-in/) [Gough Whitlam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gough-whitlam/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/gough-whitlam-22463_australian_vincent-lingiari-i-solemnly-hand-to-you_971049.jpg) > [The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-earth-belongs-to-the-living-no-man-can-by-natural-right-oblige/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/643/thomas-jefferson-43_contracts_the-earth-belongs-to-the-living-no-man-c_1885365.jpg) > [When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky…They will never be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noviolet-bulawayo/when-things-fall-apart-the-children-of-the-land-scurry-and-scatter-2/) [NoViolet Bulawayo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noviolet-bulawayo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38a/noviolet-bulawayo-12666_behinds_when-things-fall-apart-the-children-of-t_3211798.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lands-belong/#itemlist", "name": "Lands Belong Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Look at them leaving in droves despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong, knowing they will have to sit on one buttock because they must not sit comfortable lest they be asked to rise and leave, knowing they will speak in dampened whispers because they must not let their voices drown those of the owners of the land, knowing they will have to walk on their toes because they must not leave footprints on the new earth lest they be mistaken for those who want to claim the land as theirs. 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