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“We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.”

Different Country Lasts Three Race Land Chosen Settling Neglect Mexico Fertile Different Races

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”

People Land Prophet Britain Tyrants Ireland Moses Fertile

Author:St. Jerome

“I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.”

Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).

“While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.”

“There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.”

“The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.”

Source: The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)

“I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of fulfilling the first and great commandment, Increase and Multiply : as an encouragement to which we have opened the fertile plains of the Ohio to the poor, the needy and the oppressed of the Earth; any one therefore who is heavy laden, or who wants land to cultivate, may repair thither and abound, as in the Land of promise, with milk and honey: the ways are preparing, and the roads will be made easy, thro' the channels of Potomac and James river.”

“All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.”

People Country Would Be Beauty Land Strikes Grass Soil Reasonable Handsome Cattle Fertile Pastures

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative