Best land & taken Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.”

Ifs Years May Has Beens Stills Use Lasts Responsibility Taken Land My Family Ran Visible Scar Exhausted Starving Healed Millionaire Restoration Pastures

Author:Wendell Berry

“There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.”

World Earth Taken Land New World

Book:The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

Source: The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

“The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.”

World Wells Hands Christ Water Numbers Taken Land Gold Riches Minorities Silver Ownership Descendants Minerals Small Numbers Petrol

Author:Hugo Chavez

“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

“Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.”

“In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!”

Ifs Wealth Taken Land Late Garden Property Unions Plot Vegetables Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Mary Ruwart

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi.”

Needs Hands Motivation Taken Progress Blood Streets Land Gun Tools Inspired Colour Pens Agriculture Youngsters Spilling

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.”

Love May Art Made Law Strong Fun Taken Land Stupid Advantage Possession Taken Advantage

Book:Robert Frost, a tribute to the source

Source: Robert Frost, a tribute to the source

“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

Law Political Existence Taken Land Arms Bears Property Womens Rights Can Not Consent Anguish Babe Suffrage Woman Suffrage

Author:Lucy Stone

“The other day the plane that Barack Obama was on had some mechanical difficulties and was forced to land. Well, the National Transportation Safety Board did an inspection on the plane, and you know what they found? The bolts on the plane were fine, but apparently Jesse Jackson had taken some of the nuts off.”

Knows Wells Found Taken Land Fine Difficulty Safety Barack Planes Boards Nuts Transportation Bolts Inspection

Author:Jay Leno

“To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.”

People Long Has Beens Sin Taken Land Honest Position Return Resolution Observers Zimbabwe Overdue

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This single fact is inviolate and cannot be denied. It is obvious to those who have taken the time to study the subject, that the Egyptian civilization was transplanted by Western adepts and elders.”

Facts Study Taken Land Subjects Civilization Elements Western Obvious Denied Elders Egyptian Idiom Nile Egyptian Civilization

Author:Michael Tsarion

“In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.”

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.”

Needs Littles War Real Humanity Differences Results Successful Taken Land Civilization Ultimate Indian Standpoint Treaties

Book:The war in the Northwest (cont'd). The Indian wars, 1784-1787. St. Clair and Wayne

Source: The war in the Northwest (cont'd). The Indian wars, 1784-1787. St. Clair and Wayne

“A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets.”

Earth Taken Land Areas Portions Jackets

Author:Demetri Martin

“Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.”

People Real Earth Christian Taken Land New York Becoming Involved Worship Dresses Mexico Boston Santa Fascination Evangelical Environmentalist New Mexico Santa Fe

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.”

Knows Men Believe Certain Lines Taken Pieces Rights Land Position Claims Neighbor Boundaries Checks Firm Suspects

Author:H. Verlan Andersen

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