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“People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!”

People Ifs World Persons Stills Different Earth Given Issues Feet Land Objects Fit Areas Size Surface Texas Squares Cents Texan

Author:Michael Coren

“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.”

Seems Money Land Objects Universal Dollars Genuine Devotion Village Peculiar Almighty Devotee

Author:Washington Irving

“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.”

Men Want Earth Interest Water Saws Cutting Air Land Objects Planets Concern Witness Vietnam Veteran Memorial Polished Want To Travel Air And Water Vietnam Veteran Geologic Time

Author:Maya Lin

“In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.”

Land Objects Europe Labor Labour

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.”

Looks Levels Land Objects Importance Relative Mist Lone Elevation

Book:Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.”

“Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.”

Ifs Eye Lying Sea Land Objects Motive Neglected Mundane Overlooked

Author:Pliny the Younger

“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.”

People Way Past Names Walks Liberty Land Objects Paper Property Leaving Owners Disgusting Rats Highways Nourishment Breeding Clutter Picnics

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home