“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations” WorldLongRememberUniverseHouseRoomsLandCreationIgnorancePlanetsHugeBuddhismStandingClosetsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.” IfsWorldWayLooksDifferentMotherOpportunityWaterNatureChallengesGreaterLandPlanetsPerspectiveShapesMountainResourcesRiversTreatsSacredSpeciesForestsVeinsDeitiesDifferent PerspectiveGroveTimberIrrigation Author:David Suzuki
“In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.” YearsTechnologyFourLandPlanetsMoonCrowdsEightLengthReplacementsSpecksNeanderthals Author:Svante Paabo
“I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.” ReasonStoriesUseEarthLandExamplePlanetsLessonsBunchStorytellerPlanet EarthReasons To Be Happy Author:Nas
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.” WorldHumansWellsGivenStarsBornNaturalAnimalSeaLandPlanetsDependsCivilizationCreaturesRelationPlantContemporaryWell BeingNatural World Author:Chellis Glendinning
“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.” IfsEarthFilmCertainAnimalLandPlanetsHollywoodWelcomeCoastCagesNever QuitVisitingPlanet EarthZoos Author:Elinor Glyn
“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.” BookStatesHumanityLostWaterImaginationInterestingSeaLandDangerousPlanetsCivilizationLessonsNormalOppositesDifficultyIncreaseErrorsBoundsSpreadSurfaceSaltBarbarismHistory BooksSavageryRaritySalt Water Book:Image and Imagination Source: Image and Imagination
“Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.” I CanRunningSongMy OwnLandPlanetsMake SenseLocationLensesForeign Lands Author:Jon Foreman
“We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.” HumansIdeasUseLandDangerousPlanetsArmsNuclearHuman LifeArsenalNuclear ArmsLand Use Author:Janet Kauffman
“The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.” SaidEarthForceStarsLandPlanetsArmsMoonShotsShellsCoinsConquestMonopoly Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.” EndsLandExamplePlanetsResourcesDesertLimited Resources Author:Wangari Maathai
“Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.” ChoicesGenerationsLandPlanetsClaimsDespiteLegacyTitlesOwnershipDefaultHeirsFeesTenantsRendezvous Book:The Quiet Crisis Source: The Quiet Crisis
“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.” MenWantEarthInterestWaterSawsCuttingAirLandObjectsPlanetsConcernWitnessVietnamVeteranMemorialPolishedWant To TravelAir And WaterVietnam VeteranGeologic Time Author:Maya Lin
“I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.” YearsFirstsNationsLandPlanetsBecomingHonorMoonInternationalDevotedMarsEnablingPermanenceBecoming One Author:Buzz Aldrin
“In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.” IfsImportantMatterPoliticsTechnologyWorryGoneLandPlanetsTomorrowPeriodsConflictAll ThingsIndiaAncientBurdenChinaBordersYieldMarsGiverOld DaysSettlementAncient History Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.” WayFeelsWellsOpportunityResponsibilityLandPlanetsInvestmentWell BeingOur Planet Author:Ted Turner
“Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.” EarthTreeLandPlanetsPlantOrangeCherriesPlant A TreeOrange Trees Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.” PeopleWorldGivingWritingAbleGrowsPoorClearLandCarCrimePlanetsPoliticianGiving UpRainWeakNotesSpeciesDareOilBe GoodBillionsDrivingForestsFuelSatirePalmsCropsVanishingCarbohydratesBiofuelsHydrocarbonsHeinous CrimesPalm Oil Author:Matt Ridley
“Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.” WorldCausesAnimalResultsLandPlanetsIncrediblesSurfaceForestsBurningAgricultureAnimal Agriculture Author:Kathy Freston
“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.” PeopleMeanDoeCharacterGovernmentNationsBehindsDoorsLandWorstPlanetsLike YouTrumpOfficeHighestDignityCriminalsSuitsPresidentialRegimesDronesSuits YouRegime Change Author:Louis Farrakhan