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Land Quotes by David Abram
- Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them…
- A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.…
- In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or…
More Land Quotes
- In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. — Rudolf Arnheim
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that… — Abu Abbas
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. — Philip James Bailey
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. — Brigitte Bardot