Acres Quotes

122 quotes by 116 authors

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away… — Mark Twain
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. — Bob Goff
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the… — Charles Darwin
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes… — Robert Grosseteste
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia.… — Otis Redding
Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire… — Joel Salatin
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support… — E. O. Wilson
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
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on… — Greg Peterson
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town,… — Alexander Hamilton
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
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. — Earl Warren
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. — Earl Warren
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with… — Peter Sarsgaard
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a… — Sissy Spacek
I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around… — P.J. O'Rourke
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to… — Mortimer Zuckerman

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