Firsts Quote by John Marsden

I think there just may be some wild places in the world that humanity doesn't need to conquer

— Eric Verbovszky

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all…

— Robin Zander

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Since I was a child, I was always wondering why people were living in such conditions while enormous lands were empty.

— Jovenel Moise

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

— Hassan Nasrallah

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

— Philipp Meyer

We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it,…

— William H. Whyte

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

— Chief Seattle

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

— John Robert Seeley

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is…

— Junipero Serra

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact…

— Walter Becker

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau