Advance Quote by Frederick Jackson Turner

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

— John D. Rockefeller

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be…

— Barbara Tuchman

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new…

— Robert Hormats

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

— Kushal Pal Singh

“Expanding urbanization often trapped people at the margins of settlements into becoming landless and unable to use their skills and thus gradually forced them…

— Romila Thapar

“From 2000 to 2007 the United States developed close to four million acres of farmland, spending billions tilling it and filling it with fast,…

— Leigh Gallagher

“In preindustrial times, according to one study, inequality in landed property was greater in the Appalachian backcountry than anywhere else in America,”

— John Alexander Williams

“As with Britain, growth in the United States started with agriculture. Then, steel, railroads, automobiles, electricity, consumer appliances, telecommunications and chemicals were among the…

— Edward A. Hudson

Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all…

— John Perry Barlow

“If war is gods way of teaching geography to Americans, then recession is his way of teaching little economics to everyone”

— Raj Patel

“But it was all a pipe dream. As well try to stop an avalanche as to stop the moving frontier. American immigrants and emigrants…

— Stephen E. Ambrose