Square Miles Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds…
— E. O. Wilson
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more…
— E. M. Forster
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San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
— Paul Kantner
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
— Peter Agre
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As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of…
— Jo Bonner
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives…
— Wilfred Burchett
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt…
— Stewart Brand
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In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles…
— Maya Angelou
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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
— Jane Jacobs
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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
— Ken Blackwell
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult…
— Ellen Meloy
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I…
— V.S. Naipaul
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India,…
— Jules Verne
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Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and…
— Douglas Coupland
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New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.
— Shawn Amos
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of…
— Kenneth Blackwell
Who Wrote These Square Miles Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Square Miles Quotes as follows: