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“The argument goes like this: even if public grazing contributes almost nothing to local economies and national food production, it nonetheless supports "an important western lifestyle and the rural west's social and cultural fabric." If we keep ranchers working on the range, on the big wide-open of the public domain, we ensure the historical continuity of a "custom" that has gone on for close to 150 years.”

Cows Cattle Cowboys Grazing Ranchers

Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

“The top 10 percent of grazing-permit holders on federal lands own 50 percent of all livestock on those lands; the bottom 50 percent own just 5 percent.”

Cattle Livestock Grazing Ranchers

Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

“Still with her head out the window, she had spied a stone-fenced pasture beyond the gardens. Half a dozen glorious white horses grazed there, the faint dapples of their coats gleaming like silver coins in the sunshine. As she watched, a coal-gray foal galloped in a circle around its elders, tossing its head and flicking its tail. "Such beautiful horses!" she called to the footman. "Yes, miss. My lord's Andalusians." "Indeed! I thought they must be!" Suddenly she couldn't wait to escape the confines of the carriage. For a moment she felt like her usual self, thrumming with energy, avid to run through the gardens to the pasture, to lean across the stone fence to admire those horses.”

Horses White Horse Grazing Pasture Foal

Book:The Age of Witches

Source: The Age of Witches

“The increasingly one-dimensional use of land stands in stark contrast to the mixed arable and pastoral economies of the bailtean which, in turn, sustained socially complex communities. These township populations nurtured knowledge production systems that enabled mixed land management strategies. This was underpinned by communal, rule-based approaches to foreshores, grazing, and fuel assets which were taken to be common pool resources. Local resources could then be exploited through a consciously integrated and diverse set of micro-economies.”

Grazing Land Use Pastoral Highlands And Islands Townships Foreshores

Book:Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands

Source: Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands

“In eastern Oregon and Washington, where grazing reigns supreme, an estimated 90 percent of the sage biome is gone.”

Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”

“My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.”

Men Feet Dance Lawns Goats Hay Grazing Antics Satyrs

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.”

Fifty Cows Bullets Yards Quarrels Grazing

Book:Robur the Conqueror

Source: Robur the Conqueror

“I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.”

Knows Made Land Awful Vegetarian Vegetarianism Grazing

Author:Molly Ivins

“The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”

Eye Moving Animal Path Prepared Beholder Grazing

Book:Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

Source: Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

“Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.”

Should Opportunity Borders Feds Cows Mexican Acts Of Love Grazing Ranchers

Author:Todd Starnes

“The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.”

People Ideas Problem Principles Issues Amount Eating Harder Complicated Meals Good Ideas Grazing Insulin

Author:Michael Pollan

“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.”

Way Sun Summer Blue Edges Far Away Bees Unimportant Goats Wildflowers Birdsong Grazing

Author:Alison Croggon

“I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.”

Perspective Grass Soil Vegetables Cows Grazing

Author:Dan Barber

“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.”

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Wonderful Window Folks Neighbor Miles Setting Settings Sheep Dirt Deer Ponies Woodland Grazing Dirt Roads

Author:Raymond Buckland

“I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Humans Grows Human Beings Animal Fields Terrible Civilized Vegetarian Farms Nuts Cows Grazing

Author:Andy Rooney

“My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.”

Bigs Lasts Saws Wife My Wife Fats Last Time Grazing

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.”

“When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.”

Littles States Might Eye Causes Grief Cry Meetings Hello Breeze Confrontation Jars Peanuts Supermarkets Peanut Butter Grazing

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.”

Want School Teacher Fields Football Empty India Library Meant To Be Classroom Cricket Toilets Cattle Grazing Playing Cricket

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.”

Men Want Firsts Courses Asks Hours Serious Cold Horse Hot Coffee Beer Bags Breakfast Stomach Sugar Finishing Toasts Ham Kidneys Serious Things Porridge Grazing Oats Centaurs Marmalade Finishing Up

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.”

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.”

Mines Breaths Lips Warmth Connecting Grazing

Author:Craig Thompson

“I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended.”

Said Voice Mines Kissing Mouths Down And Surprise Lips Teeth Toes Shiver Lingering Sneaky Grazing Surprise Attacks

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me!”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Would Be Today Wanted Lasts Night Love You Right Now Demand Ears Let Me Breaths Angry Lips Warm Dozen Cheeks Making Love Bent Last Night Misconception Grazing

Author:Johanna Lindsey

“Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.”

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”

Want Sometimes Hands Release Awake Necks Fascinating Divergent Series Wakes You Want To See You Grazing

Author:Veronica Roth

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”

Fear Overcoming Fear Divergent Face Your Fears Dauntless Fears Of Life Divergent Series Wakes You Grazing

Author:Veronica Roth

“As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo.”

Hard Body Hands Might Heaven Bottom Mortals Immortal Slips Thick Ridges Memos Grazing Highlander Immortal Highlander

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."”

“He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.”

Ifs Mean Hands Letting Go Losing Fingers Lips Deeper Legs Warm Driving Knees Rough Clinging Sensuous Grazing Patch And Nora

Book:Silence

Source: Silence

“I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.”

Thinking Littles Stills Light Lying Water Sweet Lows Mouths Come Up Tongue Throat Pool Brushes Caress Grazing

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“You dress to impress," I said approvingly. "No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress to impress.”

Said Angel Ears Dresses Teeth Impress Grazing

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Would Be Eye Wanted Animal Brain Half Stupid Appreciate Fishes Tiny Flying Guts Be You Yearning Pointless Grazing

Author:Iain Banks

“Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.”

Giving Trying Humans May Ends Universe Loses Animal Land Balance Forests Excess Agriculture Assured Grazing Being Bad

Author:Amish Tripathi

“Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”

Want Sometimes Awake Divergent Series Want To See You Grazing Tobias Eaton Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”

Reading Pleasure Mere Cows Brutes Grazing Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.”

Way Giving Bigs Meditation Fields Best Way Cows Sheep Grazing

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted.”

“A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They're seeking $100 billion. Here's the good news: The government has responded what I believe is an appropriate counteroffer: A two-cent Navajo stamp.”

“The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.”

Water Rivers Abundance Routes Grazing

Author:William Whipple

“The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.”

Men Lasts Growing Week Fields He Man Garden Substance Milk Grazing

Book:The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge

Source: The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge

“It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.”

Men Way Want Doe Hard Fun Century Information Hard Work Bed Smart Thrive Quarters Leisure Subconscious Tolerable Hard Way Leisure Time Grazing Smart Man Learning The Hard Way

Author:Spider Robinson

“I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.”

Believe Rooms Cutting Tree Compromise Sincerely Grazing Cutting Down

Author:Steve Irwin

“That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.”

World Way Looks Mean Kids Wonder Creative Cutting Blood Dangerous Expression Arms Skins Deeper Bones Injury Keep Going Blades Razors Creative Expression Self Injury Grazing

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.”

“In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high”

World Whole Light Space Sky Land Wind Blue Wide Whole World Open Spaces Grazing

Author:Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.”

“Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.”

Thinking Past Science Knowledge Scientist Data Cows Gathering Speculation Pastures Grazing

Author:Peter Medawar