Best towns & land Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.”

People World Wells Found Waiting Cases Land Students Succeed Towns Workers Folks Ill Vices Mates Restless Retired Vice Versa Servicemen

Author:Tom Robbins

“Honey, there’s not a single woman in this town who doesn’t know about Sanctuary, Land of the Bodacious Gods. Heck, me and my girlfriends want to get together and vote Mama Lo an award for her policy against hiring any man not seriously buff…Not that you’re not buff. You can certainly hold your own against the Sanctuary Hotties. But face it, haven’t you ever noticed that this place is like Hooters for women? (Sunshine) No, I can honestly say that I’ve never noticed how good-looking the men at Sanctuary are. Nor have I ever cared. (Talon)”

Knows Men Want I Can Together Faces Land Havens Policy Vote Towns Honestly Girlfriend Sunshine Awards Honey Looking Good Mama Sanctuary Hiring My Girlfriend Get Together Single Women Talons

Book:Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”

Made Feelings Running Earth Emotion Teach Land Building Bears Towns Fishes Evolve Dry Lungs Analogies Dry Land

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”

Made Running Fear Teach Land Towns Fishes Evolve Dry Lungs Dry Land

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”

“My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.”

Feels Firsts Kind Different Wanted Spirit Teaching Land Towns Bones Worried Farmers Southern Different Kinds Daddy Clay Alabama Teaching And Learning

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”

Ifs Two Country Light Night Church Sea Land Ready Arms Opposites Towns Folks Spread British March Village Shore Farms Towers Signals Alarms Arches Lanterns

Author:Paul Revere

“Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make [wilderness] not a battlefield but a revelation.”

Littles Dream Lasts Spiritual Joy Given Love Is Powerful Land Tools Towns Sake Profit Redemption Revelations Wilderness Battlefields Wildness Little Towns

Author:T. H. Watkins

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