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“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”

Wells Mean Done Problem Loss Environment Land Example Serious Ought Cost Fundamentals Trade Productions Statements Soil Expenses Farms Farmers Pollution Deficit Pesticides Groundwater

Author:Wes Jackson

“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.”

Source: Jewels: A Secret History

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.”

Young Found Names Given Loss Grief Land Remembered Lonesome Given Names

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.”

May Loses Loss Poor Poverty Sea Land Advantage Nothing To Lose

Author:Elizabeth Inchbald

“But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."”

“When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barren. And "estate" encompasses both legacy and landscape. Think of Emerson, referring to his son's death as "the loss of a beautiful estate."”

Thinking Body Beautiful Loss Land Son Property Metaphor Landscape Legacy Estates Barren Referring Women's Bodies Infertility

Author:Monica Youn

“And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.”

People Ifs Way Mean Whole Problem Values Fall Loss Economy Land Percent Assets Gum Culprit

Author:Warren Buffett

“The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”

“And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”

War Hands Turns Loss Wonder Land And Love Dread Upper Hand

Book:Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde

Source: Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde

“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)”

Thinking Shows Loses Loss Results Principles Land Creation Willing Skills Losing Destruction Foolish Neighborhood Allies Exile Fellowship Stewardship Outcast Nonentity

Author:Wendell Berry