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“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”

Way Character Seems Earth Form Land Color Broken Grades Rolling Bizarre

Book:Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

Source: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

“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.”

Has Beens Country Land Broken Rivers Miles Indian

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.”

Men Law Liberty Land Broken Conscience Dues Compelled

Author:William Kingdon Clifford

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.”

Mean Stills Soul Memories Land Love You Broken Driven Temples Statues Our Memories Still Love You Still In Love

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.”

Kind Culture Numbers Plans Land Broken Broke Fixed Agreement Skepticism Civil Society Nomad Broke Up Settlers Sceptic

Book:Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication

Source: Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication

“Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken.”

People Soul Body Jesus Lord Enemy Land Broken Bones Easter Adversaries Dominion Captives Redeemed

Book:Sermons on the Last Days

Source: Sermons on the Last Days

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. For the yoke that was weighing upon them and the burden upon their shoulders, thou hast broken in pieces O God.”

People Light Darkness Pieces Land Broken Shadow Mental Health Burden Shoulders Yoke Weighing

Author:Isaiah

“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.”

May States Eye Lasts Time Heaven Sun Blood Land Broken Shining Unions Glorious Last Time Fragments Feuds Fraternal

Author:Daniel Webster

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”

“And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.”

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

Important Actors Land Broken Lovers Bird Lonely California Handsome Eccentric Dean Broken Down Movie Actors

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.”

People Ifs Knows Ideas Happens Force Land Broken Mark Asking Good Ideas Boldness Fixing Scrap Asking Questions Question Mark

Author:Barbara Kingsolver