The Land Quotes

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

I hate a man who skins the land.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

If somebody here in America is against war crime and against stealing lands from Palestinians by Jews, he's already not allowed into Israel.

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.