Land Quotes
3805 Land quotes by 2327 unique authors
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may…
— Thomas Malthus
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must…
— Winston Churchill
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If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
— Bruce Lee
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Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as…
— Unknown Author
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has…
— Aldo Leopold
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
— Annie Dillard
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
— Stewart Udall
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die..…
— Felix Dennis
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It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be,…
— Theodor Herzl
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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and…
— Stephen Hawking
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As governor I have seen the tremendous changes over the last few years; the amount of land that we have lost, the trees that we…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly…
— Nikola Tesla
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This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each…
— Herodotus
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Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of…
— Barack Obama
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Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources.…
— Eric Kierans
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There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.
— Carolina Nairne
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When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage…
— James Freeman Clarke
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the…
— Thomas Paine
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You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.
— Raekwon
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The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered…
— Billy Graham
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I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.
— Lucy Larcom
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