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“There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.”

Knows Wells Enough Order Environment Land Future Determine Convinced Extras Decent Grandchildren Urgent Our Environment Impatient Luxurious Frills Beautification

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“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

“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.”

Knows Doe Stills Home Sleep Sea Land Wind Tomorrow Future Skins Trade Wave Blow Boat Hanging Out Fog Floats Folds Sleeping In

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.”

World Giving Feels Mind Heart Feelings Reality Eye Land Promise Future Difficulty Dues Fixed Our Thoughts Thoughts And Feelings Looking Away

Author:Augustus William Hare

“A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.”

World Order Growth Support Land Future Waste Foundation Plant Prepared Soil Continents Adapted

Author:James Hutton

“What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energizing the land? Will the sunset and dawn mourn the passing of the creatures who danced in their light?”

Dream Light Happens Spirit Song Lines Land Future Creatures Ancient Passing Passings Dawn Sunset Mourn Energizing Kangaroos

Author:Sue Arnold