“I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.” NeedsHomeSilenceSkyLandTravelLeavingAncientDisturbingConverses Author:Toni Onley
“When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong” LooksChildrenFallBehindsKnowingSkyLandStrangeBirdLeavingDespiteBurningRestraintFalling ApartEscaping Author:NoViolet Bulawayo
“Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.” MayScienceEasyQualityLandWasteComputerResponsibleLeavingNuclearPhysicsAstronomyDesignerSoilBombsBiologyDevicesChemistryGenesDistributionFootprintSceneryHigh QualityAstronomersNuclear BombMartiansPesticidesNuclear WasteSquinting Author:Natalie Angier
“When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.” TwoGivenWeekLandPeriodsLeavingCoveredGiven UpChairmanTwo WeeksEdinburghDeputiesGlasgowMps Author:Jeffrey Archer
“I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in their native lands and they are disturbed about the rise of more separate radical Islam in Australia, not necessarily the main stream but there is a voice.” FeelingsChristianVoiceBehindsLandMiddleMetsIslamLeavingEastRadicalStreamsNativeAustraliaMiddle EastInferiorsDisturbedNative LandRadical Islam Author:Mark Durie
“People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.” PeopleWayPastNamesWalksLibertyLandObjectsPaperPropertyLeavingOwnersDisgustingRatsHighwaysNourishmentBreedingClutterPicnics Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.” ChildrenIdeasTreeLandRiversLeavingForestsLegacyMy ChildrenMagnificentOld FashionedStunning Author:Val Kilmer