California Quote by Marc Reisner

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

— Wallace Stegner

“The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion…

— Martin Adams

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of…

— William Stanley Jevons

“Far back in history, there is evidence that men who have attempted to solve the riddle of water have been bitterly attacked. Every attempt…

— Viktor Schauberger

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in…

— Bill Vaughan

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

— T. Harv Eker

“It must be borne in mind, however, that, despite their destructive potential, floods are a natural part of both the hydrologic and the ecological…

— B. Lynn Ingram

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be…

— David Ricardo

“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists in its…

— Martin Adams

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

— John D. Rockefeller

“Are you interested in irrigation? . . . Of course you are, if you are a western man. . . . Irrigation is the…

— Ednah Aiken

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel…

— Bill Gates