Facts Quote by Willa Cather

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

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities…

— Aime Cesaire

The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be no one…

— Boyan Slat

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of…

— Edna Ferber

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

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

— Jovenel Moise

“Surely it is obvious enough, if one looks at the whole world, that it is becoming daily better cultivated and more fully peopled than…

— Tertullian

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and…

— Bernal Diaz del Castillo

The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more…

— William Kittredge

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

— Martin Heidegger