Community Quote by Arthur Kemp

The people know what the land knows.

— Carl Sandburg

For me, a place is defined by the kind of people inhabiting it.

— Catherine Tresa

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

— Ko Wen-je

Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

— Paul Virilio

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

— James A. Garfield

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

— J. B. Priestley

“The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. Along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices,…

— Derek Lundy

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and…

— James Madison

The land belongs to the people who work it,

— Emiliano Zapata

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

— Willie Morris

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

— Linda Hogan