Land Quotes

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And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all t

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Nature Land Winter Will Wind Snow

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured i

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.

Inspirational Land Life And Death Tenants

In no man's land, alien is the queen.

In no man's land, alien is the queen.

Life Truth Man Land Alien Queen

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Home Contentment Land Dream Not My Life

O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part

O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature Land Mystery Wilderness Environment Unfathomable Exploration Sea Explore Wild Mysterious Unexplorable Wildness

With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with

With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

David Lloyd George

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our lan

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land questio

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Christopher Hitchens

Politics Land Land Reform Land Reform In Zimbabwe Prescience Zimbabwe

You are the land. The land is you.

You are the land. The land is you.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws it

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But th

Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.

Death Gods People Land

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying

Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.