Country Quote by Junipero Serra

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

“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and…

— John Graves

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile…

— Anonymous

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are…

— John Muir

You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains…

— Anonymous

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

— Drew Bledsoe

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and…

— John Burnside

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

— Willie Morris

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough…

— Henry A. Wallace