“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."” PeopleKnowsAgeBeautifulUsedKnownLandMiddleGoes OnOughtHolyMountainVillageDo You KnowHikingMiddle AgesPilgrimageSaunteringInspiring TravelHiking In The MountainsBeautiful WordsHoly Land Author:John Muir
“I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."” MenHumansTurnsGivenEconomicLandMiddlePropertyRewardsWorkersBoundsProfitShipsOwnersPassagesLoadExploitsIrresistibleDimesEconomic SystemsMiddle PassageProfit Maximization Book:The Culture of Make Believe Source: The Culture of Make Believe
“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.” WantYearsTwoBookReasonAmericaThreeTermClassFourTeachingLandMiddleMarkTwentiesAimCriticsPassionateDetailsCornersDecadesSoccerExcellentLeagueWheelsMiddle ClassLastingFour YearsGraduatesSheepVividIvyAmerican LifeWeirdnessYaleColumbiaEntiretyIndictmentIvy LeagueStrikersUpper Middle ClassMiddle Class Life Author:Dwight Garner
“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.” Has BeensStillsChristianReligionFatherToo MuchBloodLandMiddleCryHolyFlowJewEastChosenMiddle EastVeinsInheritanceAbrahamGraspingHoly LandPatriarch Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
“This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.” CountryAgeHistoryLandMiddleEuropeVietnamMiddle AgesRebelliousColumbus Author:Graham Greene
“We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.” PeopleKindRealChristianLiteratureLandMiddleDyingClaimsAncientJewEastChosenMiddle EastEstatesFlocksParcelBrokersOmniscientAncient Literature Author:Sam Harris
“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
“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.” MenWorldChildrenMadeImportantSelfStarsSexNaturalInterestingLandMiddleFieldsMinesSoldierPopsOilEastDisasterCapitalistMiddle EastStarvationIdioticPop StarsNatural DisasterSelf IndulgentOil FieldChild Soldier Author:Peter Menzel
“The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.” EndsAgeNextOur LivesOne ThingLandMiddleBecomingBrevityBecoming OneBeginning Middle And End Author:Craig Childs
“Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantDifferentActorsLandMiddleDifferent Ways Author:Peter Jacobson
“Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.” ShouldLandMiddleIsraelEastAgreementChemicalsMiddle EastWarfareSyriaComprehensiveWmdChemical Warfare Author:Bashar al-Assad