Best land & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."”

“A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

Country Age Earth Next Water Cutting Tree Land Harmony Tired Blow Soil Canada Continents Foreigners Altered Drains Short Time Blown Away Sod

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.”

Knows Giving Mind Believe Wells Art Whole Age Song Difficult Air Land Fool Mountain Art Is Tasks Gold Army Heavy Rhythm Firm Troops Believe In Me Crowns No Fear Foe Have No Fear

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.”

Writing Age Beautiful Land Happenings Claims

Book:The Certain Hour

Source: The Certain Hour

“Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”

Men World Home Age Earth Heaven Land Pride Spots Beloved Unchanging Revolving

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!”

Love Eye Age Break Land Flower Seeds Dust Paradise Glorious Immortal Prime Eden Germs

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”

“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”

People Thinking Country Hard Seems Happens Age Land Old Age Arriving Being Old

Book:Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women

Source: Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.”

Age Sex Easy Views Land Greed Lust Just One Biblical Plague Stalking

Author:Jennifer Stone

“blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.”

Way Age Path Land Crime Paid Honey Milk Doing Nothing Blackmail Milk And Honey

Author:Ursula Curtiss

“Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.”

Way Persons Different Age Culture Born Practice Land Century Intelligent Buddhist Enlightened Making Changes Cosmology New Cultures

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.”

Light Seems Age Suffering Sin Darkness Grace Land Worst Conditions Comfort Grace Of God Pardon

Book:Daily Thoughts

Source: Daily Thoughts

“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...”

People Years Might Age Church Land Birth Racism Vote Responsible Bishops White Skin

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.”

Country Age History Land Middle Europe Vietnam Middle Ages Rebellious Columbus

Author:Graham Greene

“Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.”

Littles Two Country Use Light Age Earth Mother Stars Land Promise Machines Two Things Attributes Improving Outstanding Mother Earth Land Use

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.”

Men May Age Term Generations Land Philosophical Ideology Promised Land

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.”

Ends Age Next Our Lives One Thing Land Middle Becoming Brevity Becoming One Beginning Middle And End

Author:Craig Childs

“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."”

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