Best Land Quotations
3805 Land quotes by 2327 unique authors
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or…
— Robert E. Lee
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We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on…
— Robert Redford
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
— Aldo Leopold
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would…
— Nikola Tesla
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The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories…
— Lester Thurow
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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
— Unknown Author
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that…
— Pete Wilson
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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then…
— Tadao Ando
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday;…
— Jean de Joinville
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it…
— Rand Paul
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
— Unknown Author
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Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.
— Adriano Celentano
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Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for…
— Woody Guthrie
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among…
— Janet Morris
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of…
— James A. Baldwin
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This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have…
— William Wells Brown
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Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to…
— Cornel West
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to…
— Roger Casement
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It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their…
— Isak Dinesen
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism…
— William Hazlitt
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects…
— Linda Hogan
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Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No,…
— Chief Joseph
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