“We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.” UseScienceThreeResultsLandFieldsMinesAreasDestructionForestsDestroyedFasterYieldGrainContinentsReplacedThree TimesConsumingExhaustionVergeTimberDeforestation Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.” MenCareLandHolyCreatorDestroyedBeloved CountryCry The Beloved Country Book:Cry, the Beloved Country Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.” PeopleIfsLongAbleLandStandingMethodDestroyedJailOccupationIsraeliIsraeli Occupation Author:Mahmoud al-Zahar
“Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!” SelfRunningWalksMillionsOur LivesLandEffectsWalkingWeaknessFilledLaysDestroyedOur SocietyPlagueSelf CenteredEpidemicsWalking AwayRunawayExchangingQuitterLive For OthersDropoutsBubonic Plague Book:God, How Can I Live? Source: God, How Can I Live?
“The repeated requests for us to 'wait,' and 'wait,' and 'wait' while our people are suffering, while our people are besieged, while our land is being colonized, and while the two-state solution is being destroyed and the prospects for peace are evaporating, must understand that such requests are not viable under these circumstances and are unsustainable.” PeopleTwoStatesSufferingPeaceWaitingLandCircumstancesSolutionsDestroyedRequestProspects Author:Riyad Mansour
“You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.” HeartMadeStatesWholeGovernmentAmericaLeftUnitedUnited StatesLandHonestRevolutionTerribleConstitutionSupremeGods WillKingdomsDestroyedThese DaysThrownThreadEldersConstitution Of The United StatesMormonismZion Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.” ChildrenWarLandDestructionEssencePropertyDestroyedInsanityWidowed Author:Gary Paulsen
“Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.” ImportantWarCountryProblemLandAccountsProfoundDestroyedFarmersAfghanistanCentsCanalsIrrigation Author:Khaled Hosseini