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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

“If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.”

Ifs Enough Community Pay Half Support Share Land Thousand Taxes Acres

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.”

Half Share Land Color Skins Response Jew Skin Color

Author:Natalie Portman

“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 Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.”

Ifs Men Humans Wells Purpose Human Beings Half Enemy Feet Land Faults Killing Convinced Peculiar Uniforms Bullets Costumes Dutch Enslavement Proximity Callousness Charades

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.”

Two Together Fighting Half Greater Rights Land Greatness Understood Hundred Treated Forty Acres Smallness

Author:Louis Riel

“I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.”

Wanted Actors Half Land Farmers Agriculture Acres

Author:Pawan Kalyan

“Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.”

People Ifs Knows Country Language Given Chance Half Land Willing Population Uncertainty Abandon Peru Foreign Lands

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.”

Ifs Feels Mean Care Past Half Watches Land Bed Travel Late Don't Care I Don't Care Live By Strict Eleven

Author:David Attenborough

“It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.”

World Two Country America Given Half Land Ocean Europe Noble Globes Coastline Sentinels

Author:Albert J. Beveridge

“A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.”

Doe Humor Funny Half Land

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.”

May Has Beens Self Country Home Nations Half Land Citizens Constitution Claims Guides Ideology Wilderness Serving Self Serving

Author:Larisa Alexandrovna

“The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.”

“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

“He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.”

Said Soul Wanted President Cities Brain Half Land Holy Angel Tongue Bullets Abraham Saviour Footprint Jerusalem Assassins Holy Land

Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.”

Trying Years Firsts Wells Together America Half Wonderful Share Land Produce Concepts Decided Died Experiments Working It Communist Pilgrim Coming To America

Author:Ted Cruz

“Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.”

Years Humans Animal Half Land Green Plant Average Eight Nine Meat Vegetarian Cows Consumption Corn Crops Acres Soybeans Green Plants

Author:Sharon Gannon

“The union of hearts-the union of hands-And the flag of our Union forever. - George Pope Morris. Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes for ever gleam; Snow-white and souldwhite- The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright- The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night.”

World Heart Dream Hands Today Night Stars White Half Forever Blood Sky Land Red Blue Unions Rose Snow Flags Shelter Pope Gleam Forefathers Stripes Snow White Morris Flag Day

Author:Wilbur D. Nesbit

“At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.”

Ifs Way Long Country Faces House Cities Half Sun Cutting Land Degrees Squares Bloody Axes Latitude

Author:Bill Mollison

“America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.”

World America Half Land Brother United States Of America Good And Bad

Author:Philip James Bailey