Acre Quotes

47 quotes by 45 authors

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life. — Peter McWilliams
The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and… — Anne Sexton
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established… — Wheeler McMillen
Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and… — John Muir
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want… — Zach Galifianakis
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce… — Annie Dillard
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. — David F. Houston
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the… — Ralph Merkle
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch… — Wilbur Smith
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch. — Tanya Tucker
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? — Chuck Palahniuk
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to… — Christine Feehan
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4… — Masanobu Fukuoka
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre… — Guy Davenport
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books… — Jon Katz
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. — John Lasseter
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by… — Alex Shoumatoff
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land. — Pawan Kalyan

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