“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.” EyeLandCryTearsWindBirdWestWarmHillsBrownAprilDaffodil Book:The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems
“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.” DesirePurposeMoralPracticeLandTearsDevelopmentSafeMountainCreatingFunctionTreasureDestructiveFlatsCoalRemovalMiningBowelsBurglars Author:Joseph Conrad
“You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.” YearsSufferingSinResultsLandTearsFundamentalsDollarsWoodsCommitSoilFertilizerTravesty Author:George Washington Carver
“We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.” WorldWarWaterLandTearsCatWar Of The WorldsTailsWorld War 2WhalesStrandedBowelsFlopping Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.” LightPainPrayerSinSeaLandTearsWindMoonBirdFlightLove PainLove Bird Author:Isadora Duncan
“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.” YearsSpiritThreePleasureRaceFourBloodLandTearsHundredRichesWelcomeIslandsParadiseSplitsHaiti Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.” FatherLanguageViolenceGenerationsLandTearsBearsMarkMurderWitnessPoisonBitternessJewelsLamentYiddishExpulsionPrecious Jewels Author:I. L. Peretz
“On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!” SuccessLandTearsScreamUncommonIncompetent Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land They can tear down a building They can tear down a park They can strike at a symbol But they can't strike the heart.” MenHeartSoulCitiesLandTearsBuildingWindRiversStrikesSymbolsParks Author:Janis Ian
“If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.” IfsCountryAirSeaLandTearsSymbolsFlagsUnpatrioticLand And Sea Author:Ralph Nader
“I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.” HandsSpiritFatherLandTearsDadProtectGravesPassed Away Author:Chief Joseph
“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."” PeopleWorldWantMeanDoneShowsHomeAmericaLawSawsOne ThingStreetsLandTearsMountainDown AndBraveChicagoMy SisterUrbanRenewalIn-lawsVisitingParkingRemovalDemonstratingParking LotLand Of The FreeSister In LawUrban Renewal Author:Fannie Lou Hamer