Desire Quote by Gabriel Chevallier

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

— Tamanend

“The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go?”

— Natalie Babbitt

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

— Anonymous

“Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.”

— Bryant McGill

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold

“The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.”

— Thomas Keneally

“I never desired so much land unless we could have lived upon it.”

— Lynne Withey

“That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control”

— Ninotchka Rosca

“They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don’t even own your own body.”

— Vinita Kinra

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

— Eliza Haywood

“It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must…

— Pearl S. Buck

“If you can't live in the land you love, love the land you're in.”

— Richard Louv