Art Quote by Andrew Jackson

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile…

— Anonymous

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks…

— Anonymous

When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone…

— Henry Williamson

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

— George Eliot

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of…

— James A. Baldwin

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of…

— William Penn

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography;…

— Victor Cousin