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“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.”

“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.”

Different School Past Fantasy Land Source Cold Europe Towns Nostalgia Hills Classic Italian Site Exile Academy Abbey

Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“It's a mining town in lotus land.”

Land Hollywood Towns Mining Lotuses

Book:The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.”

Knows Giving Littles Dream America Names My Own Pieces Land Give Me Towns Popcorn Little Towns

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.”

World Wells Has Beens Shows Land Television Tvs Scene Towns Meetings Crowds Accidents Coffee Genre Phenomenon Spectrum Couches Psychiatrist American Life Talk Shows

Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.”

Ifs Father Heaven Effort Cities Plans Land New York Empty Towns Guidance Grids

Author:Richard Sennett

“Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.”

Littles Land Towns Property Small Town Monopoly

Book:The witches of Eastwick

Source: The witches of Eastwick

“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."”

People Knows Home Animal Numbers Greater Land Dangerous Grew Grew Up Advantage Towns Miles Wilderness Representation Attacking Acres Wild Animal Minnesota Unsafe Depiction

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.”

People World Different Ends Bigs Would Be Running Guy Next Stuff Fiction Fans Land Strange Rivers Towns Science Fiction Interaction Fiction Writers Strange World

Author:Bela Fleck

“That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.”

Stories Land My Family Towns Poetry Is Reefs Promised Land Personal History

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.”

War Water Levels Cities Saws Land Built Towns Dry Village Mexico Astounded Dry Land

Book:The Conquest of New Spain

Source: The Conquest of New Spain

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden