- Nov 07, 2020
Land Quotes
Most Famous Land Quotes of All Time!
Land carries different weights across these lines, from a musician's search for an unusual note worth landing on to a humbling thought about who is said to inherit the earth in the end.
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- Bones
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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
- Energy
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Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.
- Partnerships
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
- Free
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The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
- Circular
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
Other lines reflect specific historical and political claims to land tied to Israel, including a reference to League of Nations recognition in 1922 - presented here as the speakers' own stated views, not as settled fact. See Government quotes, or America quotes.