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“Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”

Wells Mean Done Problem Loss Environment Land Example Serious Ought Cost Fundamentals Trade Productions Statements Soil Expenses Farms Farmers Pollution Deficit Pesticides Groundwater

Author:Wes Jackson

“When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."”

Thinking Want Kind Done Remember Given Practice Happened Land Holy South Israel Palestinian South Africa Apartheid Being Done Anti Semitic Holy Land Checkpoints

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.”

Men Long Has Beens Done Character Body Land Integrity Holy Standards Sorry Damage Decent Crusades Women's Bodies Holy Land

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.”

“Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']”

Knows Men Doe Stills States Done Eye Suffering Moral Land Cry Fool Bears Honor Threat Blow Spread Pity France Milk Villain Cowardice Cheeks Mischief Brows Banner Discerning Helm

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.”

Knows Ends Done America Fall Land Duty Weapons Independence West Monsters Cuba Hereafter West Indies Slingshots

Author:Jose Marti

“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”

World Important Done Social Bits Term Pieces Land Honor Waste Criticism Critics Various Contemporary Relief Insignificant Grumbling Waste Land

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun”

Done Sun Land Grew Blind Bitter Weary Misunderstanding Darling

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.”

Thinking Knows Needs Important Ends Done Realizing Know How Land Office Anxiety Planes Acknowledge The End Of The Day Things Done Ohio Reformers Public Office

Author:John Kasich

“Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer.”

Done Land India Innovation Farmers Labs

Author:Narendra Modi

“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”

Knows Love Done Land Crime Sorrow Deeds Rage Greece Turtles Emblems Vulture Cypresses Myrtle Madden

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!”

Country Done Heaven Christ Land Sight Delicious Country Love

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature”

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!”

Years Wells Made Hard Done Feelings Song Language Wish Half Land Hard Work Males Hearing Beloved Glorious Sincere Realising Congratulations Choir Well Done Welsh Good Wishes

Author:Petula Clark

“The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.”

Ifs Want Done Land Constitution Posterity Trifling Alterations

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.”

Mind Real Done Felt Land Exercise Yoga Real Life Breathing Fake Kicks Hiking

Author:Zoey Deutch

“I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.”

Done Helping Problem Seems Lasts Film Names Acting Cutting Land Music Is Expected Shoulders Score Etc Timing Bad Acting Bad Timing

Author:Trevor Rabin

“I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.”

Thinking Done Body Understanding Environment Sea Land Happenings Greed Hunger Cancer Profit Realization Implications Careless Fast Paced Land And Sea

Author:Eve Ensler

“I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.”

Done Found Land Safe Appreciate Safe Places

Author:Ben Harper

“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."”

“Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.”

World Stills Book Done Mother Three Opinion Doubt Heard Blood Land Expectations Relative Promised Land Blood Relatives

Author:Elizabeth Crook