Best land & term Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.”

People Needs May Has Beens Enough Facts Feelings Earth Nations Term Land Destruction Patterns Obligation Urban Dependence Familiarity Disturbed Ecological Nomad

Author:Wendell Berry

“As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is reality but I don’t deal with it from the point of view of recognizing or admitting it.”

States Reality Today Speak Term Deals Land Demand Israel Borders Palestinian Entity Admitting

Author:Khaled Mashal

“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

Men Way House Term Wealth Poor Known Land Food Amount Habit Cooking Stores One Way Guarantees Culinary Wealthy Estates Medieval Peppers Pantry Medieval Times

Author:Waverley Root

“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.”

“Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.”

People Heart Kind Mean Long Sometimes Matter Bigs Might Culture Term Community Land Isolation Exposed Buttons Geography Schooling Rural Life Long Drive

Author:Debra Granik

“This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.”

Grows Term Class Virtue Land Talent Aristocracy Pretension True Meaning

Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee

“Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.”

Able Term Rights Land Husband Divorce Kingdoms Progressive Vikings

Author:Gabriel Byrne

“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.”

“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”

World Important Done Social Bits Term Pieces Land Honor Waste Criticism Critics Various Contemporary Relief Insignificant Grumbling Waste Land

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.”

Language Term Land Movement Operations Invites Retiring English Language Englishmen

Book:Volume of prefaces

Source: Volume of prefaces

“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.”

Kind Real Country Term Vision Land Findings Immigrants Literal Migration Invoke Promised Land Diaspora

Author:Anne Waldman

“All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.”

“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free.”

May Values Term Community Natural Land Confined Unnatural Love And Respect Wild And Free

Book:A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac

“The most fundamental decision we all face over the course of our lives is what we will recognize as the ultimate reality, the uncaused source and cause of our existence. Everything else in our worldview depends on that initial decision. The Bible speaks of this foundational choice in terms of who or what we worship. We must all answer the challenge Joshua issued to the Israelites as they were poised to enter the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15).”

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.”

“In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.”

Men May Age Term Generations Land Philosophical Ideology Promised Land

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.”

Use Choices Term Decision Issues Land Environmental Dna Decisions We Make Environmental Issues Choices And Decisions

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.”

People Knows Actors Term Land Tvs Fellows Good Things

Author:Wayne Knight

“With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.”

Ifs World America Term Can Do Levels Technology Land Computer Can Do Something Tablets

Author:LeVar Burton

“You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed in terms of immigration for a century - you'll find the Filipino grocery store, and the African Pentecostal church and maybe a mosque. Albertans are pro-immigration; they're also pro-integration. In my years in this province I cannot recall more than a handful of expressions of xenophobia or nativism that I've encountered. It's the land of new beginnings and fresh starts - it is rare Albertans who trace their roots here back more than a generation or two.”

“I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.”

Firsts Wells Book Term Attention Novel Land Revolution Texas Brides Houston Ravens Promised Land

Author:Elizabeth Crook

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