Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image ““Woodlands in Britain increased in area by more than one-fourth between 1873 and 1911.87”” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It was almost twilight, long shadows of oaks and chestnuts crossing the unpaved road leading away from the village. This part of England had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be.… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“And here, it seems to me, is much of the secret of the charm of woods in England. A wood should never be vast.… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“The setting, concerns, and mood of The Woodlanders are consonant with the Wessex of the earlier novels. There is an element of nostalgia in… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50 or 60… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more intensive use… — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.” — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
“British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.” — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
