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“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.”

Eye Land Cry Tears Wind Bird West Warm Hills Brown April Daffodil

Book:The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.”

People Years Has Beens Matter Next Land Hills Impunity Prodigals

Book:The Last Landscape

Source: The Last Landscape

“Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.”

Stills Known Four Land Findings Tradition Hills Dictatorship Messengers Meadows Ploughing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?”

Ifs Wisdom Political Church Justice Land Killing Corruption Hills March Jail Murderer Political Power Pillaging

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.”

Book Country Running Water Lines Break Sea Feet Land Rocks Proud Shadow Green Wings Wave Flight Hills Giants Shore Pale Pauses Glances Eagles Fling Compact

Book:The Herries Chronicles

Source: The Herries Chronicles

“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.”

Different School Past Fantasy Land Source Cold Europe Towns Nostalgia Hills Classic Italian Site Exile Academy Abbey

Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

“Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion... Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.”

Wells Persons Form Sea Land Worship India Regard Hills Tribes Aboriginal Fatherland Bharat

Author:Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

“There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”

Men Form Water Magic Sea Land Draws Rivers Fishes Boat Hills Streams Lakes Fishing Creeks Over The Hill

Author:Herman Melville

“Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.”

Men Environment Land Forests Hills Beach Lanes Stigma Meadows Debris

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide.”

World Stills Home Land Sweet Hills Home Sweet Home Sweet Home

Book:Fifty Modern Poems

Source: Fifty Modern Poems

“I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.”

People Long Doe Ends Self Numbers Land Example Movement Internet Long Time Okay Phones Hills Google Predictions Email Cables Guessing Satellites Backlash

Author:George Saunders

“Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.”

Land Wind Taste Kissing Sick Breaths Evening Thee Hills Our Love Pearls Eastern Mourn Garments Love Sick

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems