Best land & fields Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.”

Children Grows Land Fields Mines Bird Casts Seeds My Children Beast

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“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.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”

Ifs Years Doe Lying Given Pay Land Conditions Fields Produce Products Return Garden Plant Owners Gardener

Author:Hammurabi

“If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is more valuable than soil; it means simply that we do not know how to value the soil. In its complexity and its potential longevity, the soil exceeds our comprehension; we do not know how to place a just market value on it, and we will never learn how. Its value is inestimable; we must value it, beyond whatever price we put on it, by respecting it.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Doe Values Know How Economy Land Fields Valuable Complexity Soil Longevity Exceed Comprehension Squash

Author:Wendell Berry

“The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.”

Men Growth Land Fields Areas Various Neglected

Book:Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”

Men Writing Stills Whole Left Half Morning Four Wife Land Fields Promise Whole Life Clock Dozen Pigs New Day Wisest Fertility Pastures Wisest Man Pallets

Author:Jose Saramago

“The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.”

“They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”

Heart Lying Left Saws Land Fields Soldier Chiefs Survived Drank Fiery Belgrade Dunkirk

Author:Thomas Davis

“We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.”

Knows Believe May Form Lost Land Fields Future Hereafter

Book:Poems of Early and After Years

Source: Poems of Early and After Years

“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.”

People Ifs Has Beens Country Lasts Heaven Poor Lord Blood Land Fields Arms Battle Hundred Foundation Slave Soldier Bones Sweat Shelter Peasants Mansions Be A Slave Saturated

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.”

“To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.”

“Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.”

Men Has Beens Land Fields Photography Landscape Shooting Hunting Gardening Virgins Landscape Photography

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.”

Past Form Plans Land Century Fields Direct Connections Notes Decades Monument Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!”

“I'm lucky enough to split my time between the field and the office. Some land surveyors in larger outfits can work mostly from behind a desk, managing many field crews at once.”

Enough Behinds Land Fields Lucky Office My Time Splits Desks Crew Outfits Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.”

“Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.”

Looks Made Hands Fall Sun Sky Land Fields Color Rain Praise Blue Green Winter Glad Bless Tenderness Wheat

Author:Rich Mullins

“I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.”

People House My Own Land Fronts Fields Discipline Six Farmers Acres

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”

Giving Stills Two Might Moving Lord Land Fields Late Seasons Fruit Portions Get Over Our Lord Two Days

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

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

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