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“In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.”

Years Firsts States Sports Pieces Four Land My Family Western Four Years County Montana

Author:Huey Lewis

“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”

“He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.”

Firsts Might Used Three Secret Gone Sea Land One Day Thirds Repentance Trusted Three Things Cato

Book:Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

Source: Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch

“It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.”

Firsts Beauty Steps Land Ugly First Steps Matisse

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!”

Firsts Hard Young Sea Land Rocks Kings Daughter Rose Winter Warm Rings Snow My Daughter Bells Locks Beard Sunny Icy

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

Life Firsts Saws Tree Land Mountain Rivers Ships Flats Site Orange Castles Rockets Disneyland Acres Grove Walnuts Walnut Trees

Author:Walt Disney

“We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.”

Firsts Remember Land Gratitude Grateful South Storm Ice Admiration Vessel Mist Sailor Aeroplanes Through The Storm

Book:The South Pole

Source: The South Pole

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.”

People Way Want Mind Firsts Country Wanted Dies Understanding Land Empty Complexes Intimacy Complexity Valleys Ecology Frantic Country Life Old Life Undercut

Author:William Kittredge

“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.”

Ifs Should Firsts Care Order Four Land Security Praying Insecurity Quarters Tranquility If You Care Personal Security

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.”

Source: Jewels: A Secret History

“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.”

Ifs Firsts Moving Energy Class Growing Land Food Productions Agriculture Competing First Class Biofuels Energy Production

Author:Bill Gates

“A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.”

Firsts May Said Feet Land First Time Englishmen

Author:Vilhjalmur Stefansson