Land Quotes

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do.

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.'

Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!

The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.