Quote by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

“Now I look at artificial boundaries—lines that can stop no current of air or drought or polluted river—and mourn the violence lavished on defending…

— Gloria Steinem

“It was with this book, according to Lins do Rego, that “the Northeast discovered itself as a fatherland (o Nordeste se descobriu como patria).”…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

“In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary…

— Robert Moffat

“North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more…

— Tariq Ramadan

“But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it. The culture…

— Christina Carson

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

“In the remote towns of the west there are few of the amenities of civilization; there is no sewerage, there are no hospitals, rarely…

— Kenneth Cook

The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization, and mechanization. While those changes went forward…

— Anonymous

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered,…

— James F. Cooper

“there needs to be greater economic and social development in the north. Without positive change and growth, it is likely that another Tuareg rebellion…

— Gordon Chang

“The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they…

— John Haines

“In its enervating plains, far removed from the invigorating sea-breeze and the bracing cold of the mountain ranges, the keen eye, undaunted heart, and…

— R.W. Frazer